![]() ![]() While automakers have added systems to assist with braking, parking and other functions, achieving full autonomy has proven difficult. Musk’s view is that his system can be “as good as an algorithm that actually uses all these expensive sensors that have a lot less data,” said Weinberger, who called Tesla’s approach “a pretty reasonable strategy.” ![]() “The bet that Tesla made, essentially, is that by collecting a lot of data, they can then train the algorithm,” said Kilian Weinberger, a Cornell University computer scientist. Musk’s method is to take real-time readings from a camera that is fed into an artificial intelligence system built around data collected over the years by Tesla sensors. Many companies working in the autonomous transportation space agree with Luminar and are focusing on technologies that combine cameras with other systems such as lidars, radars based on radio waves, or sometimes both.īut Tesla-whose cars currently offer driver-assistance systems well short of full autonomy-has adopted a different approach under the iconoclastic Musk. “The problem comes in with those corner cases,” where visibility can be impeded by fog, sunset lighting or objects like a stray plastic bag. “In perfect driving conditions, the right sunny day, cameras can do a lot,” Jefferson said. Lumar’s experiment, which was not verified by an outside expert, was intended as a “side-by-side comparison” to let people “really evaluate the difference,” Luminar’s Aaron Jefferson told AFP. At the giant Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Luminar Technologies has set up a demonstration of two autos moving at about 30 miles per-hour towards the silhouette of a child.Ī car utilizing Luminar’s lidar, a laser-based system, stops in advance of trouble, while its rival, a Tesla, careens into the mannequin. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has touted a system built around eight “surround” cameras that feed data into the auto’s “deep neural network,” according to Tesla’s website.īut as with so many other things involving Tesla, there is controversy. LAS VEGAS: As it pursues the goal of fully autonomous driving, Tesla has bet entirely on cameras and artificial intelligence, shunning other commonly used tools such as laser detection. Peer stocks: Velodyne Lidar (NASDAQ: VLDR), Ouster (NYSE: OUST), Aeva (NYSE: AEVA), Innoviz (NASDAQ: INVZ).Tesla’s cameras-only autonomous system stirs controversy.Luminar shares are up 10% pre-market to $23.54.Elon Musk is famously against the use of lidar, saying in 2019 that any company "relying on lidar is doomed." Tesla's AI head Andrej Karpathy said that lidar "gives a false sense of progress, and is ultimately a crutch.".Uses could include benchmarking the lidar against Tesla's camera-based system or, more obviously but seemingly unlikely, considering lidar for future use. ![]() The sources weren't clear on what Tesla was doing with the sensors. Bloomberg sources say Luminar sold the sensors to Tesla as part of an agreement between the companies.Autonomous driving expert Grayson Brulte tweeted a picture of a Model Y on the road in Palm Beach, Florida, that had California manufacturer plates and what appears to be Luminar's lidar system.Shares of lidar sensor company Luminar (NASDAQ: LAZR) continue to rally today after an Inside EVs report late last week suggested that Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is testing the company's lidar on vehicles. ![]()
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