Tesla’s Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

The short design decision made by Elon Musk more than a decade ago is again to chase Tesla.

like Guardian Reports, the company’s robotics operation was a huge bust-at least partially, to the MUSK betting for a long time against light detection and the resulting sensors known as Lidar, which allows devices that allow cars to “feel” more sensitive than the visual cameras that Tesla uses instead in self-driving ITSE inputs.

Waymo, a Google driver, a mixed group of Lidar, Radar and Cameras and other sensors to navigate the world around them are used independently.

More than a decade ago, Musk Burhan has made a great proof against this strategy. He has been enthusiastic about her since then.

During a press conference in October 2015 on the Autopilot Driving feature in Tesla, the CEO called Lidar launched “unnecessary” and said that technology “meaningless” for an independent car. (In particular, he also claimed in the same pressure that complete self -judgment “clearly needs 360 cameras”, although he apparently changed it.)

“Lidar is lame. In cars, he is stupid. It is costly and unnecessary.”

It is right to price. as Guardian Notes, a group of Lidar sensors runs about $ 12,000 per car, compared to the costs of information technology of $ 400 to install the cabin cameras.

However, safety should be more important than cost. Given that Tesla Robotaxis was already seen in the brakes repeatedly around COP cars, which led to the driving of the back wheel in the back, and broke many traffic laws on the camera that the government has taken care of one week since the launch of the service, the Musk line in the sand seems more fool than ever.

In some cases, he was directly involved in deadly accidents. In a 2019 fatal collision, Tesla failed on the automated pilot to distinguish between the side of a large truck from the scene behind it. In a fatal collision 2023, the Tesla Y appears to be blind from the sun and ran Jeddah standing on the road.

The problem is that Lidar is “scanning” the environment around the car, allowing to reach a self -driving system to a very accurate internal map of its surroundings. Visual cameras show what the human driver will see, but the flat visual data is more complicated to interpret and more likely to the edge situations that are difficult to implement, which include lighting conditions and other confusing factors.

“Tesla still has this pagan opinion that it will only occupy its system on the cameras, despite every smart person in this entire field,” said Brett Shrebar, a lawyer who represents the people who are sustaining Tesla for alleged Autofelot issues. Guardian.

As robots continue to walk in the streets of Austin – building, with human safety observers in the passenger seat – Schreby expects that we will see more incidents related to Tesla’s bad proof against Lidars.

“What you will also see, which is the true tragedy of this thing, is that people are still criminalized and killed by this technology,” the lawyer said. “This is where it is less than” Oh, isn’t this nice? The car cannot make the left “so far at the funeral of someone due to the options of Tesla”.

More about Robotaxi investigations: The passengers say that Tesla Robotaxi Safety Monitor was forced to stick to the driver’s seat and seize it.