Former NASA engineer and popular YouTuber Mark Rober pitted a Tesla's object detection system against Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system to determine which was better at recognizing ...

Before the test, YouTuber Mark Rober explained that other cars used LiDAR for object detection, but Tesla relied on optical cameras.

The test results were stunning: Child Mannequin Test: The Tesla didn't have enough time to stop, even though it did detect the object. The car's emergency braking system failed to kick in ...

The Lexus stopped in both scenarios, but the Tesla on Autopilot struggled to detect the mannequin in adverse ... “[LiDAR is] going to tell you how quickly that object is moving from space ...

Luminar’s lidar technology passed all of the tests, while Tesla’s Autopilot system failed to detect objects in heavy fog and in a simulated downpour. Tesla’s Autopilot also failed the ...

This is something that held Tesla back in the early days of vision + radar, because there were a lot of false positives and negatives from weird situations (e.g. curved metal objects like soda ...

which its many competitors have been using for object detection for years, with Musk once calling LIDAR "fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary." But by relying only on visual data, Tesla's ...

Tesla should include it in their FSD cars, not to detect walls painted by Coyotes ... What matters is what it does with real world objects and situations. For this, we want to know how often ...

In his experiment, a Tesla Model Y relying on cameras for its cruise control and auto emergency braking systems did not detect the obstacle ... back from surrounding objects, giving the car ...