alt Hacker NewsWell that, but Elon is also downplaying the quality of the human vision system compared to the cameras Tesla's have.
They're just not that good - nowhere near human vision performance. And a human in a car has a surprisingly good view of the road and a very fast pan tilt system to look around.
Tesla's do not actually have 360 degree full binocular vision coverage - nor the ability for a camera to lean left or right to improve an ambiguous sensor picture.
So while I fully believe that vision only self driving could work, within the constraints of automobile platforms and particularly the Tesla and it's current camera deployments, it is not remotely similar enough to human visual fidelity for that to solve a valid argument.
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Just to elaborate:
Tesla’s actually have zero binocular vision coverage because the cameras have different focal lengths and are too close even if they did have the same focal lengths.
They are also below minimum vision requirements for driving in many states.
Literally some of the highest dynamic range sensors attached to probably the best generally intelligent model existing we know of -
Humans are hard to compete with! I'd want LIDAR & RADAR just to give me an edge.