Do all these self driving systems work with regular IR cameras?
Somehow I always expected they also used some sort of depth camera to detect distances instead of figuring it out based on pixels.
Somehow I always expected they also used some sort of depth camera to detect distances instead of figuring it out based on pixels.
The difference being that all Teslas manufactured in the last two years or so have this camera sensor system installed on them, so they can all be upgraded to self driving with a software or computer upgrade. No one else is shipping cars that can be self driving. So Tesla has the advantage of collecting a huge data set of real world data now, and if they get the system working they can somewhat instantly “activate” a huge self driving fleet. Other companies have more expensive sensor systems such that the price is too high to sell the vehicles (only rent as taxis), and they will have to start manufacturing vehicles after they get everything finalized.
If Tesla and Waymo perfect their systems at the same time, Tesla will be way ahead.
Do Tesla owners know about this? Is this an opt-in feature?
By the way, they don’t collect all driving data. It’s too much data to transmit back home. They load test algorithms on to the car in “shadow mode” where they don’t control anything, then check for failures and send the car data from the failures back to Tesla. So very little data per car is actually shared.