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I don’t think you can hit a consumer price point with a vehicle with sufficient sensors. A taxi, though, can amortize the cost of a richer sensor suite.

• rlt 6y ago
  Elon believes LiDAR is unnecessary and I’m inclined to believe him. After all, humans have exactly two “cameras”, while Teslas already have many more cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors.
  • rootusrootus 6y ago
    To be fair, though, human eyes are so superior to any existing camera technology that it is hard to compare them. And the amount of processing attached to those eyes is staggering. LIDAR may be strictly unnecessary in the end, but for the foreseeable future computers can use all the help they can get.
    • rlt 6y ago
      > human eyes are so superior to any existing camera technology that it is hard to compare them Not in every respect. Cameras can have a wider field of view, they can see wavelengths humans can’t, and of course you can have more than two, each looking in a different direction at the same time.