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It got fucking wile e coyoted
The scientists in Ireland calling their data set to prevent this exact fucking thing "Coyote" sent me over the moon.
TIL Mark Rober is a domestic terrorist
To be fair, the roadrunner it was following somehow successfully ran into the painting.
Clearly we don't need lidar!
Direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ
"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors
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I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn't bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough "self driving" capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.
They are not still using cameras but removed LIDAR and radar from their cars during the chip shortage 2020/21. The story they were telling was "humans don't have LIDAR but can drive cars as well, so the cars also only need 'eyes' like humans".
Humans cannot, in fact, drive cars well. Humans kill tens of thousands of other humans with cars every year in the US alone.
Yup, cameras and humans share various exploits. Self-driving is going to work better than humans once every car has it and communicates with each other, allowing for minimal gaps even at high speeds, once roads are all very standardized and in a database, and-
Wait, that's trains
Fucking build more electrified high-speed rail and forget tech bros' shitty promises
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And let me just add, Musk ordered the LIDAR removed against the engineers better judgement.
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A fitting metaphor for Musky and their involvement with the US government.
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