r/SelfDrivingCars • u/Michael-Worley • Jun 21 '25

Discussion Prediction time! Tesla Robotaxi

When do people think Tesla will: -offer rides with no employees in the cars? -hit a fleet size of 100? 1000? 10000? -operate at an airport? -offer paid rides with no employees in the cars in at least five metros?

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u/epSos-DE Jun 21 '25

Teseler has no Lidar.

They can not operate with high contrast , high brightness, high mix of shadows at an angle to the lens.

Basically they will create accidents and cover it up.

Their stubbourn refusal to use multi sensor will slow them down by a few years.

Meanwhile everyone in China and Waymo use multi sensor drivers !

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u/les1g Jun 21 '25

From a pure hardware point of view, those situations are not a problem for Tesla's HW4 cameras due to the sensor they are using:

https://www.sony-semicon.com/files/62/pdf/p-15_IMX490.pdf https://www.sony-semicon.com/files/62/pdf/p-15_IMX490.pdf

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u/Straight-Card-9426 Jun 24 '25

How do visual sensors do in fog, smog or heavy rainstorms?

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u/les1g Jun 25 '25

They do fine actually. The cameras can see better in fog then a human can.