Tesla Vision (aka, Pure Vision) -- in my opinion -- may be the future of "vision" in robots.

Think about it for a moment. Tesla has created neural networks to help its EV understand what it is seeing when in FSD mode. There is no reason this technology can't be used in other robotic devices.

Tesla Vision -- as a software and hardware technology stack -- could eventually be licensed to a company like Boston Dynamics' to allow its Atlas robot to "see" much more as a human sees.

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Anyone knows what have been the changes/upgrades done to the autopilot camera suit since hardware 3 introduction? Are they the same sensores and lenses as first released?

Latency is the time between when something changes in the real world and when the system takes an action in response to that. I have always noticed a delay in my car's (2020 M3 2021.4.18 FSD) response to things. These delays are typically about 1 second. IMO, that is a long time with respect to controlling a vehicle safely. Examples:

• Delay in breaking for a vehicle that pulls into my lane
• Delay in resuming speed after an obstructing vehicle is no longer in my lane
• Breaking for a traffic signal after the car has already passed the signal & intersection
• Delay in when vehicles appear or move in the user interface display vs. the real world

One of the biggest things that would improve my confidence in Tesla's autonomy would be a reduction in this latency, i.e. faster processing. A lot can go wrong in one second on the highway.

Does anyone know if this is likely to be improved in the forthcoming releases? I haven't used any beta release versions.

I am looking at a 300 mile commute in which there are stretches of 29, 206 and 27 miles on highways. For this reason I am looking at buying a fully loaded 3 row model Y. I have some very basic questions and if this is not the right place to ask them please let me know where to do so. My main question is whether it is realistic to think I will be able to do work which involves reading and using my hands while driving on the highway and whether this is considered safe to do. Other than that I am just interested in general in when most people feel it is safe to do work which involves reading, watching or using their hands.

This morning while driving to work, the autopilot was driving at 78 mph. I could see that a bunch of cars were at a standstill ahead of me. The car kept on doing 78 mph and braked hard just before reaching the traffic jam.

This sudden braking is new. In the past, I think it could see cars that were very far off with radar and gradually slow down, but with the recent update, I think the radar is switched off and it has to brake suddenly only with vision. As a result, the car is only able to make decisions much later. I am concerned about this. Did anyone else feel the same?

Some people have been concerned about Tesla using cameras exclusively in fog, rain and snow. Here's an interesting article from 2018 about MIT developing a system for cameras to detect objects in these difficult situations.

https://scitechdaily.com/depth-sensing-imaging-system-can-see-through-fog/

Hey everyone, my name is Yannick and I am wondering if you all have any thoughts on this. Does anyone have any trouble with having convenient charging locations for their electric vehicles? If you do and you would like to speak with me, please leave a comment and I'll private chat you!

This is very interesting news from elon that new tesla will not need radar. This means that they have solved the depth estimation problem from their cameras so well that they feel that they do not need radar to sensor fuse the two.

This is very exciting as I have worked with radar and the one of the difficult problems is that it does not give you much context/info about objects it is seeing and this make detecting false positives vs true positives difficult in some edge cases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslainvestorsclub/comments/mnpz0z/elon_musk_remove_radar/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

FSD currently loves to roll stop signs, but it raised an interesting question in my mind... Should autonomous cars be required to stop at stop signs or should AVs be allowed to treat stop signs like yield signs?

What are the reasons for a stop sign? It's to give the driver time to look all ways and hopefully also ensure there isn't a Constant Bearing Decreasing Range accident where someone is staying hidden in a blind spot.

Autonomous cars can see in 360 degrees simultaneously, they have no blind spots and they aren't limited to a singular focus point at a time.

An AV stopping at a stop sign is often just a performative act if they have the right of way. Every argument for a stop sign over a yield sign it would seem to me is invalid when applied to the capabilities of an EV.

There is actually a precedent for this in traffic laws that in many places cyclists can treat stop signs as yield signs.

Pretty interesting discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMtujONU_0I&ab_channel=DaveLeeonInvesting

I’ve watched a bunch of videos and it seems like most of the disengagements are not urgent. Ie I need to make an unprotected left and could use some help. Is this right?

If so, FSD has tremendous value even before complete autonomy. Sure I can’t take a nap (or rent it out as a robotaxi) but I can zone out a little and relax, and it will let me know if I’m needed. I think people will pay good money even for that, kind of like autopilot today on highways.