alt Hacker NewsThey are behind Waymo but they are getting there. They started giving fully autonomous drives since last month without safety driver in Austin. Tesla chose a harder camera-only approach but it's more scalable once it works.
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dyauspitr • today at 1:11 PM
Why is it more scalable? LIDAR is cheap now.
flyinglizard • today at 10:57 AM
Clearly at this point the camera-only thing is the ego of Musk getting in the way of the business, because any rational executive would have slapped a LIDAR there long ago.
swexbe • today at 8:04 AM
...if it works.
Waymo can go camera-only in the future too by training a camera-only model alongside their camera+lidar model.
They'll probably get there faster too because the decisions the camera+lidar model makes can be used to automatically evaluate the camera-only model.