There is a big difference between "something like" and actually passing the tests, I would be surprised if any non vision based system has the reaction time needed to pass the new pedestrian tests.
Not mass production yet, but the first one rolled off the completed assembly line at giga texas last week
Sensor fusion is not far simpler, when the sensors disagree, and they will often, you have to pick which to trust.
It is amazing to see how many people here are confident they know the one true way to build autonomous systems based on nothing but wanting to confirm their biases
The surface area of the earth is the limit (which only gets sunlight half the time) and only gets 1 billionth the energy emitted by the sun vs relatively unlimited surface area of solar panels in space
Nowhere to be seen if your head is in the sand. There are robotaxi pilot programs running in two cities, FSD 14 is actively rolling out to customers, and my car drove me to work this morning on v13. I don't see any lies
No, the horn is in the middle, the capacitive horn only steering wheel existed on early builds of the model S refresh (when plaid was first released), but after ~6 months they added the normal horn back.
Tesla does not use stereo/binocular vision, that's not how humans perceive relative motion at that distance either, we would depend on perspective and parallax
Lidar is not a backup to vision, in a waymo both lidar and vision must be working, so you actually have less reliability as now you have two single points of failure.
Is the entire premise of this article based on an intentional misunderstanding of JD Power saying "J.D. Power sees an average of 49.9 PP100 for infotainment-related items, including issues with voice-recognition systems, smartphone connectivity, and Bluetooth connection difficulties"
Which might argue that drivers hate bad interfaces that most automakers are notorious for, but doesn't talk about touchscreens as an interface specifically.