alt Hacker News> other approaches, which use sensors like LIDAR as a crutch for their more rudimentary software.
Do me a favor and take Musk and get on a plane with just a bunch of cameras instead of sevsors like radar, airspeed sensor, altimeter, GPS, ILS, etc.
No need for those crutches. Do autopiloting like a real man!
Human-piloted planes have altimeters and airspeed indicators; the failure of which have caused many accidents.
Tesla cars have speed sensors as well as GPS. (Altimeter and ILS not being relevant). I agree with Musk's claim they don't need LIDAR because human drivers don't; it's self-evidently true. But I think they _should_ have it because they can then be safer than humans; why settle for our current accident and death rate?