> will reach a local maximum from which they won't recover without totally starting again from scratch Why would you need to start from scratch? AFAIK all the

> will reach a local maximum from which they won't recover without totally starting again from scratch Why would you need to start from scratch? AFAIK all the sensor output, whether results from vision or LIDAR get thrown into a mix together with other sensors anyway, and the aggregated results from potentially conflicting sensor readings is then used in the later stages of the process. Thus, it doesn't sound like an impossible task to switch out that part of the system. There seem to be a lot of startups out there working on commoditizing each of the sensor families too, so even if a company makes a wrong choice now, they could catch up pretty quickly.