I don't understand how its even possible for these cars to be crashing. My car beeps like a missile is locked on when I am coming too close to an object I might hit. Just a simple sensor in the front. If my car can beep and give me enough time to slam on the brakes, why can't Tesla's do the same?
You're probably referring to parking sensors, which are typically ultrasonic sensors mounted to the bumpers. Unfortunately, ultrasonics have both a limited range of ~20ft for practical uses, and more damningly, a relatively wide field of view with no ability to distinguish where in the field of view an object is. While 20ft range is more than enough to give you time to slam on the brakes in your garage, it's basically useless for high speed autonomy, except for some very limited blindspot-awareness type tasks.
It's not a parking sensor and there isn't anything on the bumper as far as i can tell. It's toyotas precollision system that uses a simple radar and a cheap camera. It even brakes for you if you don't.
In other parts of this thread, people are suggesting that these crashes are the radar's fault and deploying their vision-only system will fix the problem.
I don’t see how you can blame a radar for your vision system not being able to classify a fire truck (not to mention the unforgivable act of ignoring objects it can’t classify)
As the sibling post says, that’s ridiculous at face value. All the radar is check for collisions because that’s how a radar works...is there a non-intuitive answer here???
