Tesla told the FCC that it plans to market a new radar starting next month

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) remarks the words when Tesla was convinced that they are playing for adding a new radar starting in the coming month. This edits more concern about potentially needed updates to its hardware suite to achieve the promised self-driving capability.

Tesla already had to upgrade its onboard computer and cameras in earlier vehicles, and it has yet to achieve self-driving capability. Its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software is still in beta and doesn’t enable fully autonomous driving. It is believed by Tesla the best way to replicate that is through cameras to replace the eyes and neural nets running on a computer to replace the brain.

Tesla told the FCC that it plans to market a new radar starting next month

In sense of upgrading the hardware in some cases, they have removed some of the hardware. Previously the radar was the front-facing radar and more recently the ultrasonic sensors. It’s all part of its “Tesla Vision” approach where the automaker believes that the best way to achieve self-driving capability is through cameras being the only sensors. The logic behind the seane that the roads are designed to be operated by humans who operate cars through eyes and brain.

Recently in the same year company has removed the ultrasonis sensors now it opt to remove the radar on its vehicles. It is believed by Tesla the best way to replicate that is through cameras to replace the eyes and neural nets running on a computer to replace the brain. ‘s filing with the FCC to use a new radar in its vehicles. The FCC had granted a confidential treatment to Tesla in order not to release the details of the new radar.  Tesla confirms that it plans to start marketing the new device in “mid-January.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Electrek in June of last year after Tesla stopped using its radar:

The probability of safety will be higher with pure vision than vision+radar, not lower. Vision has become so good that radar actually reduces signal/noise.

However, the CEO also added that Tesla might still use radar if it had a “very high-resolution radar”:

A very high resolution radar would be better than pure vision, but such a radar does not exist. I mean vision with high res radar would be better than pure vision.

Electrek’s Take

The company CEO Elon Musk told us last year “Tesla is getting ready to put a more advanced radar inside its vehicles. And potentially a whole new sensor suite based on the Model 3 prototype.”

Probablities says that Tesla is referring to an in-cabin radar, which the company has introduced in the Model S before. But considering that the application is talking about an “HD radar,” it seems more likely that it is for driver-assist features.

Concluding…

So there’s a possibility that Tesla is going to unveil a new suite of self-driving hardware next month. That just improves the capability and Tesla still plans to deliver self-driving on the current hardware. Tesla always going to keep improving its Autopilot/self-driving hardware so there’s nothing wrong with what’s happening. But it still feeds into the growing concerns that Tesla can’t achieve its promised self-driving capability with the current hardware.

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