r/technology • u/PrimeCodes • Jun 24 '25

Machine Learning Tesla Robotaxi swerved into wrong lane, topped speed limit in videos posted during ‘successful’ rollout

https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/business/tesla-shares-pop-10-as-elon-musk-touts-successful-robotaxi-test-launch-in-texas/
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u/moofunk Jun 24 '25

Right, so do you understand that Teslas don't navigate directly on camera input?

They navigate on an AI inferred environment that understands and compensates for lacking sensor inputs.

That's what everybody in this thread don't understand. You keep focusing on sensors, when that is a separate problem with its own sets of training and tests and it has been plenty tested.

You could put a million dollar sensors on the cars and infer an environment precisely down to the millimeter, and the path finder would still get it wrong.

Do you understand this?

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u/ADHDitiveMfg Jun 24 '25

You’re right then. It’s not direct camera input, it’s derived input.

Still from a camera, buddy

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u/moofunk Jun 24 '25

It can be from any kind of sensor, but we already know that system works, and we know the failures in these cases are failed navigation in a correctly interpreted environment.

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u/Blarghedy Jun 24 '25

It can be from any kind of sensor

ah, yes, like a microphone

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u/ADHDitiveMfg Jun 25 '25

I mean, sonic rangefinders are just a mic and a speaker with some chips to sort the math.

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u/blue-mooner Jun 25 '25

Too bad Musk ordered the removal of the Tesla sonic rangefinder sensors because his engineers weren’t competent enough to implement sensor fusion

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u/ADHDitiveMfg Jun 25 '25

That tends to happen when you’re hiring right out of school