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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 03:13 AM
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it is just using multiple inputs.

Or if you want to get money from investors, you call it sensor fusion, lol.
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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by spwolf
it is just using multiple inputs.

Or if you want to get money from investors, you call it sensor fusion, lol.
haha, and stick "AI" in there somewhere.

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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by spwolf
it is just using multiple inputs.

Or if you want to get money from investors, you call it sensor fusion, lol.
Not the same thing. Sensor fusion is an industry term (not a marketing term) of a process to get an outcome. First used in the early 1980s in aerospace and military.



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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 12:26 PM
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As I suspected you were describing an architecture that isn't Tesla what architecture exactly I'm sure you won't say, or don't know. Maybe you are not aware that Tesla only uses cameras?
In autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion is used to integrate data from radar, lidar, cameras, and ultrasonic sensors to create a comprehensive and accurate representation of the vehicle's surroundings.
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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 703
Not the same thing. Sensor fusion is an industry term (not a marketing term) of a process to get an outcome. First used in the early 1980s in aerospace and military.
sometimes they are one and the same.

yes, companies have been using multiple sensors and combining the data into one for decades.

Question is why do you think Tesla is not doing this with Optimus already?
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Question is why do you think Tesla is not doing this with Optimus already?
pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
That is my only gripe when showing off new tech

Please don't mislead me or exaggerate.
If the puppet has strings, show the strings! Haha 🚀⛳🛻
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
As I suspected you were describing an architecture that isn't Tesla what architecture exactly I'm sure you won't say, or don't know. Maybe you are not aware that Tesla only uses cameras?
at one point you said it’s the same AI stack used for Optimus. In the above you seem to deny that Tesla has sensor fusion - the core process required for what is promised for Optimus.


Anyway, combining cameras from multiple angles is called monomodal sensor fusion. It is exactly what Tesla is doing to compensate mostly for depth perception (distances and object location). But still unreliable under specific environmental conditions.


Tesla Hardware 4 is radar capable and will be reintroduced back in some Tesla models - with improved chipsets for the Radar. Their old ones were crap - had poor angular resolution ability which caused phantom breaking.


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In case there was still doubt


Going by the graphic, Cybercab and Optimus are using 4680 cells.
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I need to know what % of energy is lost doing this

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Old Oct 18, 2024 | 01:06 PM
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yeah that's a pretty long distance. You would think they'd want to close that gap with some sort of mechanism, either the "puck" raising up or the car's coil dropping down when in position. Wireless charging efficiency drops exponentially as distance between the coils increases.
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Originally Posted by geko29
yeah that's a pretty long distance. You would think they'd want to close that gap with some sort of mechanism, either the "puck" raising up or the car's coil dropping down when in position. Wireless charging efficiency drops exponentially as distance between the coils increases.
hopefully they solved that problem, which is why they purchased wireless charging company few years back. That has to be cheap and usable.

Also Cybertruck has lines left for installing wireless charging, that go directly to the battery. So I assume that is coming for everyone soon enough.
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According to Tesla energy loss is 8% that's excellent for what amounts to a transformer in two halves one in the car one on the road. But a cord won't lose that much.
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
According to Tesla energy loss is 8% that's excellent for what amounts to a transformer in two halves one in the car one on the road. But a cord won't lose that much.
That's actually really impressive.
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Old Oct 21, 2024 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
In case there was still doubt

https://x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/1846294753144361371

Going by the graphic, Cybercab and Optimus are using 4680 cells.
It's happening!!!!!! Only a matter of time!!!!



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