{"id":131871,"date":"2021-12-06T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-reportedly-demanded-cameras-over-radar-in-self-driving-cars-because-human-eyes-dont-rely-on-radar"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:22:20","slug":"elon-musk-reportedly-demanded-cameras-over-radar-in-self-driving-cars-because-human-eyes-dont-rely-on-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-reportedly-demanded-cameras-over-radar-in-self-driving-cars-because-human-eyes-dont-rely-on-radar","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reportedly demanded cameras over radar in self-driving cars because human eyes don\u2019t rely on radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-reportedly-demanded-cameras-over-radar-in-self-driving-cars-because-human-eyes-dont-rely-on-radar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think his purpose in doing this is to prioritize full self driving over partial self driving features.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cHumans drive with eyes and biological neural nets,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1447588987317547014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Musk said in October<\/a>. \u201cSo [it] makes sense that cameras and silicon neural nets are [the] only way to achieve generalized solution to self-driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he\u2019s reportedly implementing that philosophy at Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly instructed the company\u2019s Autopilot team, which works on self-driving car tech, to ditch radar and use only cameras instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/06\/technology\/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the New York Times reported on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think his purpose in doing this is to prioritize full self driving over partial self driving features. \u201cHumans drive with eyes and biological neural nets,\u201d Musk said in October. \u201cSo [it] makes sense that cameras and silicon neural nets are [the] only way to achieve generalized solution to self-driving.\u201d Moreover, he\u2019s reportedly implementing that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}