My point is that you're missing the point. This debate isn't about whether lidar works or not. Whether lidars are capable of capturing images is not the questio

My point is that you're missing the point. This debate isn't about whether lidar works or not. Whether lidars are capable of capturing images is not the question we're trying to answer. The question is whether applying lidar to self-driving technology is worth the tradeoffs. Your last paragraph is a point about software not hardware. You're suggesting by using lidar, you give software more information than just using camera, which causes software to be faster. This is a valid point. But you cannot say, using lidar in a self-driving car is a good idea because it successfully captured the image even though software failed to process that image to make the correct decision. Well, if lidar doesn't help software (and it does) it'd just be useless crap. If Uber engineers don't know how to process lidar data, they really shouldn't put lidar in their cars... It's not about hardware or software, it's about the system as a whole.