There's no facility to record the video in the car either. The video is processed directly in the camera module, and only a high-level summary is sent out from there. There's no connection with the bandwidth needed for video, and not enough storage in the camera module to save it there.
>There's no facility to record the video in the car either.
that is really hard to believe. Given how useful dash cams are in cases of accidents, etc..
>and not enough storage in the camera module to save it there.
and how all these dash cams do it? Storing 8hrs or more. If Tesla didn't put an SD card there, it sounds really not smart.
To "mikeash" below: thanks for the link. It does seems like a small camera (thus one can expect low light issues). So Tesla uses 3rd party system - no miracles here, i hoped that they developed their own and thus hoped that they would improve it fast. That using of the 3rd party system explains while there are a lot of things missing that one would naturally expect in the sensing system of an "autopilot" functionality. It is also explains why they are so defensive instead of just going ahead and fixing issues.
Autopilot actually does better at night. Better contrast. I think it may use infrared, but whatever it's doing, it doesn't have issues with low light.
What functionality is missing that you'd expect it to have? For the small number of sensors Tesla has (one camera, one radar, a dozen short-range ultrasonics), the system is amazing, and it's the best one commercially available right now (as verified by many independent tests, that's not just Tesla talking).
The system is from Mobileye, which is currently the best in the business. I don't see why this would hurt improvement (the system has improved dramatically through software updates) or why it would make Tesla defensive. It's not like they've tried to hide the fact that Mobileye provides the camera and image processing hardware.
(Note that Tesla has parted ways with Mobileye and the next generation of Autopilot is going to be a Tesla product. Not sure why, but it sounded like Mobileye delayed their next generation hardware too much for what Tesla wanted. But not really relevant to the current hardware.)
"I think we have completely opposite understanding of things here."
OK? I'm telling you how it actually is. The system works better at night, because there's better contrast. At night, the lane markers are lit up by your headlights, and the road is very dark. During the day, the difference in color is much less distinct, and as such the system doesn't perform as well. I've seen this in action with my own eyes during thousands of miles of Autopilot driving.
The small number of sensors has nothing to do with using Mobileye technology. Tesla easily could have incorporated multiple cameras or radars, they just didn't. And that's not missing functionality, that's missing hardware. You haven't given me any functionality you expect the system to have that it doesn't.
"they can't improve it"
Of course they can. Did you not read the part in the comment you're replying to where I said, "the system has improved dramatically through software updates"?
I don't mean to offend you with this question, but do you actually know anything about this stuff, or are you just guessing? It's getting tiresome to correct all of your incorrect statements.
