Again with the LIDAR argument... Humans drive using only eyes (computer vision) and having a sense of location (localization/3D maps). As has been discussed in

Again with the LIDAR argument... Humans drive using only eyes (computer vision) and having a sense of location (localization/3D maps). As has been discussed in some depth here before you commented, computer vision hooked up to some ML doesn’t come close to human eyes controlled by a human brain trained for many years. Early autonomous test vehicles used LIDARS because camera and compute tech are not at the same level they are today. It's a legacy system and more of a shortcut. In essence, Object recognition > LIDAR judging distances. Waymo is the cutting edge if you believe what people here say on thread after thread about them, and the raw stats. I’m sure they’ll be interested to hear your view of their “legacy” tech. Yeah it's true that a vision based system is much harder to solve. However if Tesla cracks it, it will pay dividends. Finally, reality. Yes, if they do something they’re yet to do, and their cars stop ramming stationary objects, then maybe something else will happen. No one is contesting that, there are just doubts given the state of Autopilot vs. leaders in the field, not to mention Tesla’s dodgy PR in general, and in the face of fatal incidents in particular.