Not exactly. Tesla's autopilot/full self driving system never used LiDAR. In fact, Musk famously said that using LiDAR was a fool's errand. The Tesla system is vision based although there was a period of time where they were also using radar (and perhaps the ultrasonic sensors also). Apparently, they came to the conclusion that fusing multiple sensors was not worth the effort and they are now vision based only and stopped installing radars (as well as ultra sonic sensors) on their vehicles a couple of years ago. I am not sure what role the radars on older Teslas play. I believe their latest release is entirely neural network based using only vision data having removed all of the older heuristic code.
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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I like the idea of fully-approved, driverless cars. Distracted driving, driving under the influence, bad habits, poor skills, and just poor decision making cause the roads to be rather dangerous. If those drivers were sitting back in their computer-driven cars it would make things safer for all of us.
Tesla's experience shows not all full-self driving systems are ready for prime time. I noted that the system in the video uses the LiDAR sensors that Tesla removed. I will trust a certified, fully-approved system to be safe.
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