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Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing Lidar with Manufacturer Plates

by mjmasn on 5/21/21, 10:27 PM with 8 comments

• by frxx on 5/21/21, 11:29 PM

  Lidars like these are often used as a source of reference data, maybe that's what they're doing here.

• by theopsguy on 5/22/21, 12:03 AM

  I bet they are using lidar to collect training data for their vision based depth sensing NN.

• by tibbydudeza on 5/22/21, 11:09 PM

  FSD Beta V10 - requires the Lidar+FSD circuit board upgrade package for only $10,000.

• by Traster on 5/21/21, 11:11 PM

  To be fair this is what I would do if I wanted to get a good wage for working on Tesla Autonomous vehicles - buy a Tesla stick a LiDAR on the roof rack and show Elon what the technology can do.

  I'm not seriously saying this is some ambitious startup instead of Tesla, but it would be interesting.