> But why LIDAR though? The simple answer is that we don't know how to do it with stereo vision alone yet. Getting range reliably is hard, and your brain uses

> But why LIDAR though? The simple answer is that we don't know how to do it with stereo vision alone yet. Getting range reliably is hard, and your brain uses lots of tricks to do it. The second answer is that we need better-than-human performance if this is to take off. So using human-type sensing might not be good enough anyway. Lots of researchers are pushing on vision-based driving, though.