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Comparing Tesla’s Vision-Only Approach to Other Autonomy Technologies
A critical aspect of Tesla’s strategy involves eschewing lidar—long a staple of autonomous vehicle development—for a vision-only system based solely on cameras. Musk pointed out that companies like Waymo, Cruise, and others spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per vehicle equipping them with lidar sensors, which create HD HD maps of cityscapes, identifying every curb and obstacle.