In a new video from Chuck Cook released on Thursday, Cook tried out an experiment to evaluate the overall viewing angles of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 9.1.
In the experiment, Cook blocked out the B-Pillar and 120-degree forward-facing cameras, in order to see what the bird’s eye view camera can see without the aid of the other cameras.
The video comes just a few months after Tesla removed radar from its production builds, vouching only for FSD based on pure camera vision.
Cook tests the cameras without blocking the cameras first, walking around the car to see how it renders him as a pedestrian.
Then, upon covering the first camera, the forward-facing unit, the windshield wipers began going off automatically and the display darkened on its own. Even with the forward camera covered, the car was able to sense the vast majority of Cook’s steps around the vehicle, though a few blind spots appeared.
In the next test, Cook moves the cardboard camera-blocker from the forward camera to the B-Pillar camera on the left side, which seems to lose him as a pedestrian nearly in all sides and directly behind angles, though it still catches glimpses of him as he rounds each corner of the car.
Following the initial tests, Cook also takes the vehicle to an intersection, attempting the same on an unprotected left turn across three lanes, which he has been testing since becoming a FSD beta tester.
Check out the video below:
