The above wording seems to imply the LiDAR comes pre-installed in the Touring, but deactivated. Upon the $9000 upgrade, the LiDAR can be remotely activated, to work with the Dream Drive Pro software, after OTA upgrade.
And no Tesla EV has LiDAR bc the emperor Musk believe in software more than hardware. Now Tesla just fired FSD employees and close the that FSD office in California.
That is awesome. Very excited to see the LiDAR capabilities.
the new models don't even use radar anymore right? i knew tesla's FSD/autopilot was going to be garbage the second they got into their spat with mobileye in like 2016/2017
Correct - But Tesla's beta vision-only "full self driving" software is actually pretty incredible in operation. It just needs to reduce its failure rate by a factor of about one million - no exaggeration.
Tesla fired an office full of human data-labelers, not software engineers. BTW Tesla is/has actively tested high-definition imaging radar (https://www.sae.org/news/2022/01/imaging-radar-is-the-next-big-thing). I hope the GT's embedded lidar unit is capable enough - specs vary and technical progress in the field is rapid.
"Mercedes Drive Pilot Level 3 Autonomous Tech Officially On Sale In Germany"
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Tesla's solution works pretty well for me and continues to iterate better. That China video is probably geofenced, on perfectly labeled roads and there's no traffic. Let's add a variable or two and see how well they do in NJ traffic circles. The jury's still out, but I'm a believer that LiDAR is an additional cost and layer of complexity that will be harder to solve than pure vision. If we all can drive with two eyes, I'm not sure why 4+ cameras can't surpass us at some point in the near future.
No one has level 5 and I think realistically to get to that point (autonomous driving in any condition, anywhere) we would be talking timeframes of decades not years. Both due to the technical challenges and the approvals needed.
I have a feeling it’s not the case. Looking to lease a pure but from my understanding dream drive does not have blind spot detection, which is a deal breaker for me. I agree that almost all cars come with those features as standard. Disappointed not included with DreamDrive. Will be in premium but that package not available with current lease offer.
Blind spot detection is included in basic Dream Drive. What is not included is the blind spot camera view when the turn signal is activated. Some people like this feature and some people think it does not add anything. The camera view is in Dream Drive Premium.
As an addition, if you do not understand what "monitoring" is, some reviews of hyundai products have it.
today I was walking along a rural country road that is heavily travelled and well stripped. No shoulder so when walking, one has to step off the road. Usually cars pull to the left and give you space. The sun was in drivers faces and to my back. I could see a Tesla 3 coming in my direction and the woman had both hands up to the rear view mirror. I figured she was semi-hands free driving and stepped off the road. The car and driver acted like they never saw me. Straight as an arrow right down the road. I would have been squashed if I didnt bail. How anyone can hands-free drive is beyond me.
With only cameras, it's difficult to see stationary objects lying on the freeway, for example. It is a shadow? A ladder? A plastic bag that can be driven straight through, or a piece of bent sheet metal?
Most hands-free ADAS cars are geofenced limited its use for highways with less chance for pedestrian sighting.
