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		tremon on June 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic b... But a car's radar doesn't need to detect a power line against a wall; it only needs to reliably detect the wall...

btilly on June 8, 2018 [–]

Actually it needed to detect a crash barrier against a background of lots of other stuff that was also stationary.

The easier that you distinguish the signal you want from the signal that you don't, the easier it is to make decisions. For radar, that is far, far easier with moving objects than stationary ones.

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