Camera Cleaning Solved by TI

[sybertruck]

I have found that the only next physical change that is really needed to FSD being solved is a way to keep the cameras clean during adverse conditions. This is brilliant!

It looks like Texas Instruments has this solved:
https://www.ti.com/video/6317728222112

In the meantime, an error compressor install with lines to each camera along with washer fluid would do the trick I feel.

I’m curious is anyone has gone beyond just running washer fluid “Y” splits to the cameras or installed their own air compressor or tapped into the air suspension line(concerns about errors here).

Would love to brainstorm on this. The TI camera solution seems superb and ideal really.

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[devdrone6]

Someone has done this with the tailgate camera last year. There is a thread about it.

 

[CyberGlow]

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[Pulaski]

 

[JCERRN]

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https://www.clearvucam.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopAbIXpIi4gkNkuulpPM0uTjafddllJHnaeEPweidv64arDuPzn

The TI solution is uniquely elegant. For all intents it “shakes” the stuff off the camera. This plus a spray for dry contaminants would be ideal.

 

[CyberGlow]

The TI solution is uniquely elegant. For all intents it “shakes” the stuff off the camera. This plus a spray for dry contaminants would be ideal.

I actually missed the video earlier and just watched it, that’s super cool!

 

[That Beast Mode]

Pretty cool... Wouldn't vibrating the camera shake it out of calibration tho?

 

[JCERRN]

Pretty cool... Wouldn't vibrating the camera shake it out of calibration tho?

Just the overlying lens shakes, not the camera module. It basically makes the outer lens a subwoofer. Brilliant out of the box thinking

 

[That Beast Mode]

Just the overlying lens shakes, not the camera module. It basically makes the outer lens a subwoofer. Brilliant out of the box thinking

Very interesting concept.. cool.

 

[Sturdybirdy]

Brilliant!

 

[sybertruck]

The TI solution is uniquely elegant. For all intents it “shakes” the stuff off the camera. This plus a spray for dry contaminants would be ideal.

Yes agreed!! I have the full side and rear Clear Vu kit, but this is next level and likely something I am thinking Tesla will use and potentially offer as a retro-fit(hopeful).

It is really the last piece of the puzzle for unsupervised autonomy.

 

[hemiarch]

So cool. Brought to you by the people who forced my parents to spend astronomical amounts of money so I could learn to write “BOOBS” on my TI-83.
You will never learn math without this thing they all said.
Seriously though, I always imagined the solution would emulate a human eyelid but it seems like there is a simpler engineering answer than that. Thanks for the wicked cool post.

 

[Known-Background]

This looks cool though and should be available sooner… https://lenslizard.com/products/lens-lizard

 

[Jackmaine]

I had a 2020 Y with ultrasonic sensors. They were always clean even if the rest of the car had a salt crust.

 

[hemiarch]

I had a 2020 Y with ultrasonic sensors. They were always clean even if the rest of the car had a salt crust.

Didn’t realize this was ever the case for the Y. Thought those were all either Hw3 or Hw4. Had those sensors on our 2016 x. and when the software was built for them, they were excellent.

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