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Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi is not running at night, and lidar is the answer

Elon Musk says Tesla Robotaxi is limited at night by pets that are hard to see.

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Elon Musk says the main thing holding back Tesla Robotaxi’s night hours is that the cars have a hard time seeing pets in the dark. His example was “grey kittens on grey tarmac.” That’s a low-light, low-contrast detection problem, which is the textbook weakness of cameras and the exact thing lidar and radar handle.

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