Robotaxi operating hours moved from 10pm to 11pm. The main thing we’re trying to solve is making sure that we don’t run over pets when they’re hard to see at night. Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark.
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I wonder if there's some kind of sensor technology you could install in the vehicles that solves this problem as well as many others Like a detection and ranging with light kind thing Someone should figure that out

Oct 3, 2026 · 8:44 AM UTC

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Someone should call it something like Light Detection and Ranging or just abbrev it to LIDAR. Pretty catchy... should someone invent the tech.
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Same cameras on every vehicle means the same algo works on the entire fleet. Old and new.
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Just one more sensor bro.. that it, I promise.
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Would that be cost prohibitive? And does it come with other drawbacks like sensor contention?
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Lidar shoots out millions of lasers. Better to avoid.
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I dunno, light has limits… maybe if we use sound… or radio frequencies outside of the visible light spectrum… you could have it send a pulse then time how long it takes to come back…
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Yeah, this problem is solved when you use systems other than cameras to do power your autopilot.
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Maybe try headlights.
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It already have cameras.
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finally someone with common sense
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The first principle at Tesla is to do whatever Elon says, lol. LiDAR is never useful at Tesla—until Elon says it is.
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Cameras on the kittens
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🤣👏
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