Can someone tell me if SpaceX's tail-landing rockets are vision-only systems?
Street vehicle navigation seems at least as difficult as nailing a rocket landing.
Street vehicle navigation seems at least as difficult as nailing a rocket landing.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/64ew8x/falcon_9_a_s...
Humans also have eyes with a lot more than 1.2 megapixels of equivalent resolution and vastly more dynamic range, attached to a brain with damn near infinite more compute power than any computer.
Of all the potential criticisms of fsd this is an odd one.
Neither has SpaceX. On the other hand, humans have been using their plain jane eyeballs to land helicopters for years.
Not saying it never makes dangerous mistakes, but the mistakes I've seen it make seem solvable. For example it has trouble with unprotected left turns when there are trees or fences obscuring the view. That to me is understandable and could probably be fixed with an update to the vision stack, maybe train the object detector on cars partially obscured by trees.