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Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It'll Soon Be More. (singularityhub.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even Tesla themselves calls the removed sensors "radar" so I don't think your rude dismissal of GPs post is appropriate.

In 2021, we began our transition to Tesla Vision by removing radar from Model 3 and Model

https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Radar and LiDAR are two different instruments. One creates a 3D point cloud while the other mainly measures distance and speed. New Tesla models with hardware 4 have radars in them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This correct. Waymo cars have both radar and Lidar plus like 29 cameras.