It might be funny is it were not a simple 15 second google search to find pictures of TEslas actual LIDAR test rig. Clock starts now, 4:07pm EST. And still 4:07 PM
They're more torque than news.
I don’t see in the close ups where the LiDAR visibility would be. Also, LiDAR normally isn’t happy with a “non-level” installation. I see a coax cable coming from the bottom, which is consistent with precision GPS. I don’t know that anyone verified or researched anything, but assumed it was LiDAR. After all, if you don’t understand, why would they need GPS? I mean, the truck has its own GPS, right? But as I mentioned before, there are quite a few uses for precision GPS.
If I were to guess, I would say this has something to do with Autopilot or FSD. Those antennas, along with a decent GPS receiver and post processing, will give you accuracy in the ”just a few” centimeters range. Which means it can tell where the truck sits within the lane, stops how close to the limit line, accel and deceleration rates, lateral loads during turns, everything. Think of it as recorded hyper-accurate feedback. Or, hyper-accurate data to back the video you feed to the AI farm. And then you can see how that data affects the system and its response to the new data.
Not just related to AP or FSD, since are seeing this cruise downtown, they could also be validating the onboard antennas reception performance for basic NAV stuff. Since are seeing this rig run downtown, where the tall buildings can affect that performance.
Entirely possible! In my original guess I mentioned that as a possibility. Being able to deal with multi path reflections is not a big deal, until you think of FSD. Then it's a big deal.
I must have missed it in there, Pete.
