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February 26, 2021

Tesla's Latest FSD Breakthrough: Bird's Eye View Explained w/ James Douma (Ep. 258)

49 minutes

I discuss the latest in Tesla's FSD developments with James Douma.

James Douma on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesdouma

Previous interview on Inside Tesla's FSD Neural Nets, https://youtu.be/iMtujONU_0I

Andrej Karpathy talk at ScaledML 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8

Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction

00:48 - Andrej Karpathy's talk on architecture of FSD

2:12 - Looking at the neural net code

3:32 - Pseudo lidar

4:37 - FSD cameras

9:57 - Hardware 3 vs 2.5

11:05 - Birds eye view

14:47 - Geometric approach vs neural nets

16:52 - Birds eye view predictions

19:57 - Fusion of cameras for birds eye view

25:18 - Moving from geometric approach to BEV Net

31:27 - Did Tesla mention birds eye view at 2019 autonomy day?

37:44 - BEV is a huge step forward

40:57 - Alphafold and shocking ability of NNs

45:02 - Implications of Tesla on cutting edge of vision and movement

46:47 - Humanoid robots

48:26 - Conclusion

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