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Electric-vehicle fires have burned down homes after Hurricane Ian saltwater damage. Florida officials want answers

Electric-vehicle fires have burned down homes after Hurricane Ian saltwater damage. Florida officials want answers
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Steve Mollman
Sat, October 15, 2022 at 6:48 PM·2 min read



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It sounds counterintuitive, but electric vehicles that have been submerged in saltwater can catch fire. That’s proven...

When radar chips became sparse, Tesla suddenly stopped using radar in their cars, citing the difficulty of merging the logic of video based logic with data from a radar feed. Over the course of a few months they were able to replace much of the auto-pilot functions with video based environmental awareness. Now they are dropping the ultrasound sonar sensors that are used to locate nearby obstructions, including pedestrians. It looks like they are citing cost savings.

I find this change to be odd since it comes at a time when most car manufacturers are improving their ability to detect and avoid accidents by using more sensors and AI.

The link below has a video that shows that there are some really big blind spots in the car's camera field of vision. Most alarming is that there are areas in front of the car that would not see a child playing.

Tesla saves an estimated $114 per car by removing USS