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[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla

WAD at CVPR · talk · Watch on YouTube

Self-driving & autonomous vehiclesComputer vision, speech & NLPMachine learning & deep learning

What it is

Andrej Karpathy, then Tesla's head of AI, gives a CVPR 2021 workshop keynote on how Autopilot's neural networks work. A large part covers the move to a vision-only stack, including why radar was dropped and how vision produces depth estimates.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it in Tesla threads as the primary-source explanation of why Tesla removed radar and how its vision depth estimation works.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo)”

    Karpathy talk explaining why radar was removed.

    fossuser, 2023-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Waymo doubles service area in Phoenix Metro”

  2. “It's worth a watch if you find this stuff interesting and enjoy learning about the forefront of technology.”

    Tesla AI head presents vision-based depth system.

    simondotau, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards”

  3. “Andrej Karpathy explains it in far more detail in this talk”

    Karpathy details why Tesla removed radar.

    ggreer, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]”

  4. “Check out for a very detailed breakdown”

    Very detailed breakdown of radar removal.

    JoshCole, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Tesla FSD Beta almost causes a head-on collision [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tesla autopilot, computer vision, radar removal, depth estimation, self-driving, neural networks

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