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> IIRC a number of cars, even Subaru, have better cameras than a Tesla

Are you saying this from datasheets, or looking at the camera images?

Tesla cameras aren't optimized for humans, their Bayer matrix is likely designed for day and night machine vision including infrared, so the colors might look washed out to you. I heard at one point they were using RCCC and later moved to RCCB [1]. If I'm not mistaken C allows all light, including infrared. Cameras designed for human viewing are RGGB.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot



The dynamic range, glare and resolution would still be good tel-tales of quality.


Dynamic range isn't a simple problem to solve depending on how it's mapped to the screen. If the mapping isn't done well, then it could look much worse than what the camera can 'actually see.' Glare and resolution concerns, though. certainly.




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