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There's a lot wrong with Tesla's implementation here, so I'm going to zoom in on one in particular. It is outright negligent to decide against using LIDAR on something like a car that you want to be autonomous. Maybe if this car had sensors to map out 3D space, that would help it move more successfully through 3D space?
You and I are (mostly) able to safely navigate a vehicle with 3D stereoscopic vision. It's not a sensor issue, it's a computation issue.
I get what you are saying. But adding a new form of data input into the system would probably function to improve performance, not decrease it. I don't think it makes sense to not add LIDAR into Teslas.
All of this feels like Elon was asked to justify not putting a rather expensive (at the time) set of sensors into the Teslas, and he just doubles down and says that they will compensate with software.