There's a fundamental difference between LIDAR based self driving and vision based. The difference is LIDAR tells you EXACTLY where EVERY possible obstacle is.

There's a fundamental difference between LIDAR based self driving and vision based. The difference is LIDAR tells you EXACTLY where EVERY possible obstacle is. It easy to develop logic to avoid hitting something else. With vision, you're basically having a machine learning model guess where the object is, its size, etc. So there's a chance of failing the basic task of knowing that there's something possible to hit.