Sebastian Thrun will tell anyone who will listen that he is sorry he got the self-driving car world hooked on LIDAR. He is 100% behind computer vision now. He

Sebastian Thrun will tell anyone who will listen that he is sorry he got the self-driving car world hooked on LIDAR. He is 100% behind computer vision now. He would much rather use several $10 web cameras than multi-hundred dollar LIDARs. If you look at term 1 of the Udacity self-driving car syllabus, it is CV and ML, zero about how to process point clouds. NVIDIA is also betting on CV for self driving cars.