It looks like Tesla has found some Apple-like 'courage', because it's now 'brave' enough to remove parking sensors in all its cars, relying only on cameras to judge the distance to obstacles.
These sensors are crucial not just for automated parking features but also for the simple act of judging the distance to an obstacle. In fact, Tesla says that for the time being, drivers will not get any audible or visual warnings when parking, so they’ll have to rely solely on the 360-degree camera system. The park assist, remote parking and Smart Summon features will also be disabled; the company says it will enable them after a “short period.
In its announcement, Tesla says it is “confident that this is the best strategy for the future of Autopilot [its semi-autonomous driving system] and the safety of our customers.” But there’s clearly an element of cost-cutting as well—even though the components are very cheap , the company will still recoup a significant amount of revenue with this move, given the number of sensors on each car and the production volumes it is chasing.
Tesla is also claiming that the functionality of these sensors will be replaced by a wider roll-out of its “vision-based occupancy network,” a camera-based object mapping system first introduced on vehicles specced with the Full Self-Driving Beta. This gives the car “spatial positioning, longer-range visibility and ability to identify and differentiate between objects,” it said, adding that the functionality will be improved over time.
This stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the industry, which is responding to demand for greater driving autonomy bythe number of sensors on each vehicle. Most notably, a few car companies are moving ever closer to introducing lidar sensors for accurate object mapping—the same objective Tesla is trying to achieve using just cameras.
Firstly, while the US’ Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has tested 2022 Tesla models for frontal crash prevention, it only
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