alt Hacker News> Based on what i know i do not believe that the latency imposed by the frame rate of the cameras is a limiting factor on self-driving car performance or safety.
This is would be pretty tangential to the discussion so not sure why you are bringing it up? Did you think my post was illustrating that camera based self driving cars were infeasible? Also it appears you are mistaking framerate for latency, something I specifically warned about in my post... I don't really know what to say here.
> Did you think my post was illustrating that camera based self driving cars were infeasible?
You said this line: “The car is traveling 1.5 feet between each frame interval” As I said before, this is a true statement. What I’m asking is what do you think is the significance of this value. You wrote it. It does indeed sound like you were saying this is an impediment, or at least a complication for implementing a camera based system. But I don’t know because you didn’t spelled it out, and I can’t read your mind. Hence I asked why do you feel that number is a problem. (If you don’t think it is a problem, just an interesting fact you wanted to share of course you can say that too.)
> it appears you are mistaking framerate for latency
I’m not. If you are measuring latency from “something is happening in the world” to “robot is reacting to it” then a component of that end-to-end latency is the time delay before your sensor captures a new measurement. That delay is a function of your framerate. This delay is only part of the full end-to-end latency. It appeared to me you were concerned about this delay and that is why you calculated how much the vehicle travels during this time.
> I don't really know what to say here.
I asked specific questions. If you would care to answer them we would be ahead. When i wrote “I can’t quite understand your comment.” that is not a retorical snipe. It literally means what i wrote: I do not understand your comment and I’m asking for clarification. I even quoted the bits which I don’t understand and asked my specific questions about them.
> This is would be pretty tangential to the discussion so not sure why you are bringing it up?
Because it seemed to me you were bringing it up in your comment. Or at least that is how i could interpret those few lines in your comment I was talking about.