That means it's just one software glitch away from being inoperable.
Until -- and if -- better batteries than lithium ion are developed, I still wouldn't want an EV even then. They are a big fire hazard.
That would be an awesome system and would look so classy. And have physical knobs and buttons for the radio
What about if it used a proper cambus and computers as needed, but all the interior controls were analogue or at least 80's red LEDs aesthetic with the brakes and gas pedal being as close to analog as possible?
i liked the concept car hyundai did of taking an 80s grandeur and making it an ev
I like those mid-20th century car designs that look all rocketship-ish and use manual controls and analog gauges. No computers needed.
I like that.
People do this with kits fairly frequently.
Uneducated opinion. I’ve no idea how good the LIDAR on this particular car is, but anything beats Tesla’s worst-in-class performance.
That video is fake and he turns off the self-driving before hitting the wall. It’s literally an ad for a lidar company.
Just because they didn’t pay him in cash doesn’t mean it isn’t sponsored. YouTube has a category for sponsorship called “exclusive access” which that video definetly falls under.
That article admits that he did multiple takes and used the non-self driving cruise control.
It doesn’t change the fact that you still need both good LIDAR and good cameras. Just one of the two isn’t enough. Simply put you need LIDAR to look for obstacles, and cameras to determine traffic rules and when to ignore an obstacle. If LIDAR spots something laying on the road, it just knows there’s an obstruction. Cameras can determine whether it’s, say, a rock (in which case you need to stop) or a plastic bag (in which case you can proceed). The Chinese vehicles you’re complaining about have good LIDAR, but haven’t trained their obstacle detection system to allow the car to ignore certain obstacles, which is where the hilarious videos of cars emergency stopping for birds or garbage bags come from. Teslas on the other hand only use cameras, so something as simple as glare can blind you in an entire 120 degree arc (very bad if that happens to be forward), and it will never be as safe as a car with both LIDAR and cameras (or even a human), because it has no depth perception.
...because that would be retarded. Electric motors produce rotational motion directly, why use electric rotational motion to power pistons for reciprocating motion to power a crankshaft to convert it back to rotational motion?
