What they’re doing by removing different types of sensor is -simplifying- the Tesla system design and bringing it closer to human senses (ie eyesight alone). A

What they’re doing by removing different types of sensor is -simplifying- the Tesla system design and bringing it closer to human senses (ie eyesight alone). Apparently Hacker News thinks humans are safer than Autopilot. So why wouldn’t we advocate a highly advanced vision-based model in cars, rather than a complex, awkwardly synchronised fusion of different classes of sensor? Take LiDAR, for example. Some claim it’s superior to Tesla’s vision sensors. But LiDAR can’t detect colour, so how will it read traffic lights? Its model of the world will have to be synced up to a camera vision-based model of the world. Syncing two 3D (4D in fact) models precisely is a pretty tough problem to solve. Complexity becomes a risk in its own right.