IMO, Musk is not smart enough to listen to his AP team. (some of the best people in the world at this) He's known for firing people who resist his ideas.
I use Tesla AP all the time, and often in heavy Bay Area traffic. One of the cool tricks radar enabled is detecting a car in front of another car in front of you. For instance, say a Honda Civic is in front, followed by a Ford Excursion. The Honda slams on his brakes, but the Excursion guy is on his phone and doesn't see the Honda until it's too late. My radar-equipped Tesla will slow down as soon as the Honda does, giving more time for cars to react behind me. It's literally saved the day on more than one occasion. Elon's theory is "People drive with vision only, they don't have Lidar or Radar". That's bullshit. Driver assistance systems have to be superhuman if we are going to let them have full authority. It can't just be "as good as a human", it has to be 100 or even 1000 times better than a human, or it will never be allowed to assume full control. Radar is cheap superhero capability. I think what happened is the semiconductor shortage impacted Tesla's radar supply, so they found a work-around. On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:16 AM EVDL Administrator via EV < [email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes I really wonder about Tesla. With the less than stellar > reputation that autopilot already has, it seems odd that they would > actually > delete some of the system's "eyes." For the sake of EVs in general, I > sure > hope they know what they're doing. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Never been to Cleveland when the sun was shining. > Even when it shines, it looks like rain. > > -- Melanie Safka, "Between the Road Signs" > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210527/368fff14/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
