Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”
I'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's test of 100 vehicles.  Volvo has multiple LIDARs, multiple radars, multiple cameras, redundant computers, and redundant actuators.  They're being cautious. Yet they're getting there first.<p>With the new hardware, Tesla ought to be able to field smart cruse control that doesn't ram into stopped vehicles partially blocking a lane.  They'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?