For years people acted like self-driving safety was all about perception — what kind of LIDAR, radar and cameras are you using? In the real world, we see that it is all about understanding. The issue here wasn’t whether LIDAR could see something or cameras could see something. It’s... about just understanding the scene and doing the right thing. You could construct a self-driving car with a variety of different sensor suites that could handle this properly, but the key isn’t the sensor suite — it’s the deep learning, the understanding that gives you safety. The sensor suite needs to be sufficient to see, sure. But it really doesn’t take much to beat what a human can see. They only look in one direction and are frequently distracted.show more

teslas cant see thin ropes or chains, and dont know when they're on an upper level of a multi-level parking garage

Perception is necessary, but understanding is what makes autonomy work. The real breakthrough is teaching the system to understand the scene and make the right decision.🚀

Clearly a self driving fail but how does the human driving the SUV not see it, stop or even attempt to avoid it??

They still don’t grasp that intelligence is key, not a hundred sensors.

Just a narrative short sellers and morons use that LIDAR is needed. The fucktards clearly don’t realize had this been true, Tesla would have left LiDAR on their cars. It’s not that expensive. 🤣

Safety gets real when the car understands the scene, not when it only catalogs what it can see. Perception without comprehension is still guessing under a nicer name.

two eyes and one of them is usually on the phone. pretty low bar to beat lol

well it’s clearly both. to understand a traffic situation and reason to solve it and decide what to do, we still must accurately perceive it in the first place. elon was the first to insist that vision is sufficient to achieve that understanding and that sensor-fusion is detrimental not advantageous.