YouTuber Mark Rober tested Tesla's Autopilot against a LiDAR-equipped car to assess its obstacle detection. Tesla's Autopilot struggled in extreme fog, rain, and painted wall tests, unlike the ...

Musk said in a social media post this week that Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi service will roll onto the streets of Austin, Texas on June 22. The Tesla CEO is betting the company’s future on ...

Tesla is going vision-only, but most other companies are using a hybrid approach with some mix of vision, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics, etc. Tesla actually did used to have sensors other than vision ...

Elon Musk Says Tesla Doesn't Need Lidar Because 'People Don't Shoot Lasers Out Of Their Eyes' After YouTubers Put His Cars Through Wylie E. Coyote Tests.

Cameras, Radar, and LiDAR: The eyes and ears of driverless cars . The terms “driverless” and “self-driving” are often more descriptive than scientific–engineers and researchers in the ...

"Did my best to warn people that LiDAR isn’t optimal for cars. Roads are designed for biological neural nets & eyes, so digital neural nets & cameras will work best," Musk said in Aug. 2023.

Tesla's Robotaxi Still Faces The AI 'Black Box Problem' Plus, the industry is split on LIDAR, and BYD wants to sell 100,000 cars in Mexico next year.

Instead of adding sensors such as lidar to its cars, Tesla relies on cameras for Autopilot and Full-Self Drive, which could be the system's greatest flaw By Owen Bellwood July 30, 2024 11:35 am EST ...

Tesla was recently hit with a new federal investigation prompted by an incident when a Tesla on Autopilot killed a pedestrian in low visibility. That's Why It's In Hot Water News ...

Earlier this month, lidar supplier Luminar Technologies reported that Tesla had purchased over $2.1 million in lidar hardware. Lidar is not the only thing that can damage camera sensors – lasers ...