Mobile LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system in China. On its roof, the LiDAR emits 532nm green laser light, using backscattering from airborne particles to monitor air pollution distribution.

Why Elon rejected LiDAR for cars while personally spearheading LiDAR development at SpaceX “LiDAR is lame. They’re all going to dump LiDAR. Mark my words” And years later, the industry is starting to realize just how massive that mistake that was Automakers spent years piling expensive sensors onto cars while Elon took the opposite path: Solve vision People acted like Elon hated LiDAR He literally spearheaded the development of SpaceX’s own LiDAR system from scratch Dragon uses LiDAR to navigate and dock with the International Space Station Because in space, LiDAR actually solves a real problem But for cars, once vision is solved, LiDAR becomes expensive, redundant hardware That became Tesla’s entire autonomy architecture: Cameras, Neural networks, Massive real-world training data........AI doing the driving And Cybercab is the purest version of that philosophy. It comes with no LiDAR or giant rooftop sensor array or a hardware circus Just cameras, onboard AI and FSD Elon chose this path more than a decade ago while almost everyone else was throwing more sensors at the problem Now Cybercab is being built with pure vision from day one Solve vision well enough...and autonomy becomes dramatically simpler, cheaper and infinitely easier to scale The industry kept building autonomy around more hardware. Elon built Tesla around better intelligence

Waymo’s giant LiDAR hardware covers the entire glass roof, while the Tesla Model Y’s glass roof is fully open, allowing for some awesome views, especially from the second row. Another benefit of computer vision and AI.

People who say LiDAR is needed for night driving should see this Waymo fuckup because it can’t see a turn in complete darkness. It did pretty terrible the first time but kudos to it for remembering and not messing it up a second time. Tesla robotaxi has never had a problem here during the night. Not any hate on Waymo, they are doing great, but clearly it isn’t because of LiDAR lol

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Why Robotaxi ONCE YOU SOLVE VISION. LIDAR IS OPTIONAL. Robotaxi does not scale by bolting more sensors on every car. It scales when the stack is cameras + neural nets — the same solution in every vehicle, learning from the fleet. Elon, Tesla Autonomy Day 2019: “They're all going to dump LiDAR. That's my prediction. Mark my words.” “And in cars, it's friggin' stupid. It's expensive and unnecessary. Once you solve vision, it's worthless.” That’s why Robotaxi matters. - 8 cameras — Tesla vision stack - Sixth Austin expand — this morning - ~245 → ~264 sq mi (North Austin + Pflugerville) - Sept 3 Cybercab Austin — days away Solve vision once. Every car ships the same stack. Scale comes from seeing.

opus 5 one-shotted this LiDAR horror game you can only perceive the world through LiDAR signals, the rest is pitch black. honestly impressed, the world emerging point by point is ridiculously satisfying i didn't manage to finish the game tho i'm too scared