One Tesla owner in China put Tesla’s FSD to the test in the jungle.
This creator regularly tests his Tesla’s FSD in unusual and complicated scenarios.
But this was probably his wildest test yet.
And it didn’t go as expected.
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This Tesla owner in China often shares videos about his experience with FSD on his YouTube channel, aptly named Tesla FSD in China.
He did it with the water cup challenge, and then did it again in traffic at rush hour.
He also once tested FSD on one of the toughest mountain terrains he could find.
But this is different.
On this occasion, he showed his Tesla Model Y EV navigating a cliffside trail in what definitely looks like a jungle.
The trail was covered in dirt and extremely narrow.
The first that happened is that FSD accelerated a bit too abruptly, giving the Tesla owner a mild heart attack.
But FSD managed to maintain control of the car without crashing.
However, his video may, perhaps, have accidentally shown the limitations of Tesla’s vision-based system.
This is because the car kept on accelerating and braking, and then accelerating again, all the time.
Unlike everyone else – apart from Xpeng – Tesla uses a camera-only system, with no radars or LiDAR.
This system has often been criticized because some people argue that using nothing but cameras limits what self-driving systems can do.
By contrast, Tesla argues that LiDARs have technical limits, while cameras, especially with AI, don’t.
Translated into plain English, using a LiDAR system, according to them, is the same thing as blindly following the sat nav instead of simply looking at the road ahead.
If you’ve got good cameras, enhanced by AI, you don’t need a lidar to tell the difference between, say, a deer or a lamppost.
No one knows who’s right or wrong, yet, but we’ll find out soon enough.
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