Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”
I&#x27;m still not happy with self-driving on vision alone, or vision augmented with radar.  There are too many hard cases for vision.  Everybody who has good self-driving right now - Google, Otto, Volvo, GM - uses LIDAR.<p>Self-driving is coming to the first end users in 2017, in Volvo&#x27;s test of 100 vehicles.  Volvo has multiple LIDARs, multiple radars, multiple cameras, redundant computers, and redundant actuators.  They&#x27;re being cautious. Yet they&#x27;re getting there first.<p>With the new hardware, Tesla ought to be able to field smart cruse control that doesn&#x27;t ram into stopped vehicles partially blocking a lane.  They&#x27;ve rammed stopped vehicles at speed three times now. At least with the new hardware things should get better. Do they still have the radar blind spot at windshield height?