Camera-only ADAS Implementation Isn’t Trending, Demand for Radar Hasn’t Dampened

摘要

Earlier this year, Tesla made the bold decision to stop equipping its North America bound vehicles with radar. Its Autopilot feature will rely solely on cameras and neural net processing. According to their CEO, Elon Musk, “The probability of safety will be higher with pure vision than vision with radar.” The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety initially withdrew its top safety rating for Tesla’s Model 3 but later reinstated it after new tests, concluding that the Model 3’s active safety features were at least as good as those implemented with radar.