My recollection is Tesla has been leaning heavily on optical image processing. Perhaps the radar is, or was, not very sophisticated? For example, can a single unit by itself tell, in one frame, if an object is moving laterally to its field of view?
The radar was added to all Tesla vehicles in October 2014 as part of the Autopilot hardware suite, but was only meant to be a supplementary sensor to the primary camera and image processing system.
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My recollection is Tesla has been leaning heavily on optical image processing. Perhaps the radar is, or was, not very sophisticated? For example, can a single unit by itself tell, in one frame, if an object is moving laterally to its field of view?
The radar was added to all Tesla vehicles in October 2014 as part of the Autopilot hardware suite, but was only meant to be a supplementary sensor to the primary camera and image processing system.