Elon Musk unveiled an audacious vision for Tesla self-driving tech, but the Level 5 target looks unlikely
that I’d follow-up today with a review and provide key takeways, so here it is).
Some might liken Musk’s enthusiasm to his earlier efforts to make a hyper-automated factory of the future for producing his cars, and later on, after great difficulties in automating human-based car-assembly tasks, he acknowledged that humans are underrated. You are not going to hardware-alone your way to becoming a Level 5. It’s a completeness and sufficiency matter, requiring both the right hardware and the right software.
Let’s be clear, there was essentially no attention paid to the numerous and known flaws and limitations of today’s neural networks and Deep Learning. There was also almost no indication of how the FSD incorporates heuristic style programming with neural networks to arrive at a Level 5. In short, the evidence presented was scant on any real details that mattered, in spite of the event lasting nearly three hours.
He and his team used the now time-worn claim that since humans don’t have lasers in their heads, and only eyeballs, presumably the driving task can be done entirely via vision. Meanwhile, it was then mentioned that they are using radar to bolster their vision processing elements. To overcome what certainly seemed like a logical inconsistency in the vision-only argument, they floated a quick series of off-handed remarks about why radar is better than LIDAR.
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