The cars of the future seem to be full of cameras instead of having a huge number of sensors or, at least, that is what Tesla’s movements in recent weeks suggest. The manufacturer of smart electric cars such as the Tesla Model S or the Tesla Model X will do without sensors in their new vehicles.
When making this decision, all the alarms have gone off and, it is that, the sensors are essential when using a car that is supposed to be intelligent. But the reason Tesla has given for this move is that the cameras that will integrate these new cars will be more than enough for the control of the vehicle.
The specific sensors that it will eliminate are the ultrasonic ones that, until now, had been present in its electric cars. In order to eliminate these sensors and that driving is not affected, what Elon Musk’s company has proposed is that both cameras and the neural networks that have been developing for so long will be used.
These cameras along with computing neural networks are basic parts of the Tesla Vision system. Of course, not everything is good news since by losing the ultrasonic sensors in newer vehicles certain benefits will also be lost and features that were available until now, such as the parking assistant.
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The parking assistant is not the only feature that will be lost by dispensing with these sensors, so will the feature that allowed, for example, calling a Tesla Model S or yet Tesla Model X with the mobile phone and that the vehicle drive independently to the user’s position.
From what Tesla has commented, these features would be lost momentarily as it is expected that after a while they will be available again. Promises are fine, but knowing how the company works Elon Musk it is even possible that later you have to pay to recover these characteristics.
We will have to wait to see how this situation progresses with Tesla cars, but it is clear that the fact that they stop integrating these sensors in favor of cameras is complicated since for the same performance of the cars with the sensors to be achieved, it will be necessary to wait a long time.