[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it in Tesla threads as the primary-source explanation of why Tesla removed radar and how its vision depth estimation works.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

WAD at CVPR

Topic

autonomous driving vision

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo): [VIDEO] Specifically this is the relevant part: [VIDEO] They removed radar because it was making things worse.

• If you're interested, Tesla's head of AI recently did a public presentation of their new vision based depth system. It's worth a watch if you find this stuff interesting and enjoy learning about the forefront of technology. [VIDEO] A key takeaway is that they've been …

• Radar has poor resolution, which means it can't always differentiate between an object near the car's path and an object in the car's path. The radar can give false positives when there's a truck on the side of the road or a metal sign on …