Are we reeeeally sure optical sensors with fast image recognition software are cheaper than LiDAR?

It's dirt cheap, too. If this was a cost-cutting measure, it was a thoroughly idiotic one. Which feels like the mark... of a certain someone I can think of

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

Iirc they were using a combination of lidar and radar, but Elmo wanted to cut costs.

What's cool is that Teslas used to have radar sensors, at least, but Elon removed them from production to save money. Even if you have a car from back then, the software no longer uses them and they'll just physically unplug them the next time you have the car serviced, as it's just a drain on the battery at this point 🙃

Not even just his cars, he thinks the MILITARY, doesn't need radar and can just use cameras to spot and track stealth fighters.

He's a fucking lunatic.

I mean his right, his cars don't need radar or lidar. They just drive into things.

In short because Elon (wrongly) believes you only need cameras, he made the claim people also drive with just 2 eyes.

The thing is, we recognize a truck with stickers of a stopsign, while AI vision gets confused.

Waymo (Googles self driving side hussle) was build on lidar and other sensors and has been using robot taxis for many years now in geofenced specific areas.

I have another idea: echolocation and laser measurement.

The actual wall is way more convincing though.

I was horrified when I learned that the autopilot relies entirely on cameras. Nope, nope, nope.

They never had lidarr. They used to have radar and uss but they decided "vision" was good enough. This conveniently occurred when they had supply chain issues during covid.

Teslas did this in the past. There was also the issue of thinking that the moon was a red light or something.

YouTubers - especially large channels like this - constantly A/B test with different thumbnails and stick with whatever one drives the most traffic (no pun intended) to the video.

You might not like it, but it’s unfortunately the reality of operating a content creation business on an algorithm-driven platform.

There are plenty of channels I follow that make fantastic videos, but sometimes you have to tolerate the shitty thumbnails because that’s just the reality of the system they’re operating within.

Yup plus the European Union is making their alternative to launch in a year or 2