BMW tests next-gen LiDAR to beat Tesla to Level 3 self-driving cars::Tesla’s autonomous vehicle tech has been perennially stuck at Level 2 self-driving, as BMW and other rivals try to leapfrog to Level 3.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Currently they seem to be leading the race though even though the competition is using radar and lidar

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      1 year ago

      If buy leading the race you mean the only company to have an actual product available for purchase then yeah.

      But the reason they were able to get to market so quickly is because they don’t actually have any concerns about it being functional or safe. That’s a real boon to them because it helps them move quickly ahead of the competition that do care about those things.

      Of course one good argue that an unsafe self-driving system is in fact not a self-driving system and therefore they are not the first to market.

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        1 year ago

        The average consumer would define self driving as “if my car crashes, my car should be sued”. Is that how it works with a tesla crash, who pays for that?

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            1 year ago

            Then what’s the point in it?

            What’s the point in a self-driving system that has been babysat in order to ensure it doesn’t murder you, random pedestrians and other road users. If I want a car that is unsafe if I take my hands off the wheel I can get a regular car, it already does that.

            Tesla themselves call it FSD, Full Self Driving. That is at best false advertising and at worst reckless endangerment. It isn’t fully capable, and it requires the driver’s attention so it isn’t self-driving. Literally every part of its name is wrong.

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        1 year ago

        No, I mean leading the race as in having the most capable sefl driving system in existence which I believe is the case.

        I don’t know what you’re basing the claim on that it’s not functional and safe.

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          I am basing my claim on it not being functional and safe.

          I’m basing my claim on the fact that it drives into trucks. Since I don’t want to be driven into a truck by my car, I would consider that to be a failure state.

          Do some research.