How Tesla’s Vision-Only Autopilot Estimates Depth
WAD at CVPR · Talk · 32 min · 2021 · YouTube title: [CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
Why it's here
HN commenters cite it in Tesla threads as the primary-source explanation of why Tesla removed radar and how its vision depth estimation works.
What it covers
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.