{"id":248,"date":"2018-02-21T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/elon-musks-self-driving-strategy-still-doesnt\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:13:42","slug":"elon-musks-self-driving-strategy-still-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/elon-musks-self-driving-strategy-still-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s self-driving strategy still doesn\u2019t include LiDAR | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/07\/elon-musks-self-driving-strategy-still-doesnt-include-lidar\/'>Elon Musk\u2019s self-driving strategy still doesn\u2019t include LiDAR | TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cWe have to solve passive optical image recognition extremely well in order to be able to drive in any environment and in any conditions,\u201d Musk said on today\u2019s Tesla quarterly earnings call. \u201cAt the point where you\u2019ve solved it really well, what is the point in having active optical, which means LiDAR. In my view, it\u2019s a crutch [\u2026] that will drive companies towards a hard corner that\u2019s hard to get out of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk said that they\u2019d want to do active photon generation in the radar range because that\u2019s something that can see through small occlusions, so it\u2019s not possible to do it from visual info and apply machine learning to work out variances in lighting conditions, etc. He said that he \u201cfinds it quite puzzling that companies would choose to do active photon generation in the wrong wavelength,\u201d however, meaning working with the laser spectrum, since it\u2019s very pricey.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Musk called it \u201cexpensive, ugly and unnecessary,\u201d and added that even though he\u2019s still clearly set against its inclusion in Tesla\u2019s autopilot designs, it\u2019s still possible his own bet in this area isn\u2019t 100 perhaps correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps I\u2019m wrong, in which case I\u2019ll look like a fool,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m quite certain that I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s self-driving strategy still doesn\u2019t include LiDAR | TechCrunch \u201cWe have to solve passive optical image recognition extremely well in order to be able to drive in any environment and in any conditions,\u201d Musk said on today\u2019s Tesla quarterly earnings call. \u201cAt the point where you\u2019ve solved it really well, what is the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}