Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk reiterated his criticism of LiDAR on Wednesday however defined that he’s not essentially in opposition to the know-how.
What Occurred: “Clearly, people drive with out capturing lasers out of their eyes. I imply, except you’re Superman…. people drive with eyes and a neural internet and a mind neural internet, form of organic… the digital equal of eyes and a mind are cameras and digital neural nets or AI,” Musk stated within the firm’s fourth-quarter earnings name.
Musk stated that LiDAR is solely the “fallacious resolution” for self-driving automobiles on roads. Nonetheless, his rocket manufacturing firm SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft continues to make use of it for docking with the house station, he stated.
Why It Issues: Musk has beforehand criticized LiDAR, terming it a “crutch”. Not one of the firm’s offered autos have lidars. In 2022, the corporate additionally eliminated ultrasonic sensors from its autos to rely solely on cameras.
Nonetheless, not all are in settlement with Musk’s determination to rely solely on cameras for autonomous driving.
“…you actually do want considerably extra {hardware} than Tesla is placing within the autos to construct a robotaxi that is not simply as secure however particularly safer than a human,” Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson opined in October whereas including that there’s a want for sensor information regardless of developments in AI to guard in opposition to digital camera malfunctions and guarantee totally secure rides.
Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous ride-hail firm Waymo continues to make use of LiDAR in its robotaxis.
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