Like Elon’s camera based self driving does it also make a lot of mistakes?

I bet modern radar can tell the difference between a bird, plane, baseball, and missile, but a camera based one is full of false positives.

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cogman10 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It might, but I'm not sure how much of an issue a false positive is. It's not like Iran has an airforce and it's not like there a bunch of civilian planes flying over head.

Also, modern radar can't always tell the difference between a bird and a plane. Especially when dealing with stealth vehicles.

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chistev 9 hours ago | parent [-]

A false positive can be a problem if you're shooting missiles at things that aren't real threats, no? Those missiles cost money.

	▲	cogman10 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a problem depending on how often it happens. Letting a bomber through that takes out a military installation or desalination plant is worse.

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oa335 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Widely available image recognition software can tell the difference between birds, planes, baseballs and missiles already.

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the__alchemist 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends. It would be a non-trivial problem when dealing with only 1 - a few pixels, which is likely.

	▲	ceejayoz 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not that hard. Planes and birds act pretty differently, even when pixel sized. Doubly so when you've multiple cameras networked all over the area.