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0 pointspetilon3y ago0 comments

But it doesn't appear to be helping. Here's an example accident where depth data from Lidar would have helped:

"Tesla later said that during the crash, Autopilot’s camera could not distinguish between the white truck and the bright sky."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilo...

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mensetmanusman3y ago· 3 in thread

Humanity doesn’t know how to solve this yet, so it’s hard to say whether it is helping or not.

We already have the solution. LiDAR.

mensetmanusman3y ago

If LiDAR was a solution, we would have driverless LiDAR based vehicles. No one has solved driverless though.

ALittleLight3y ago

If you could use LiDAR well enough then it would solve the problem. Of course, if you could use vision well enough it would solve the problem too.

aeternum3y ago· 2 in thread

The crash you referenced occurred in 2016 when they were using radar on the cars and I don't believe they were yet using raw photon counts nor did the NN have any voxel-based memory as it does now.

moffkalast3y ago

> any voxel-based memory

Haha, any WHAT?

Seriously though do you have any more info on that, it sounds intriguing. Where and how do voxels come into play in a 2D NN?

It is pretty cool: https://youtu.be/ODSJsviD_SU?t=4355

They transitioned from 2D to 3D a couple years ago, major transition but it does seem like a critical step. We live in a 3d rather than 2d world.

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