Lidar vs. Cameras = A Giant Fail For Tesla

For years (it seems like decades), Tesla has been claiming that its cars can (almost) drive themselves and will soon be used as robotaxis that will earn their owners buckets of cash. Mark Rober is a former NASA engineer, YouTube impresario, and founder of something called CrunchLab. He also has a highly developed sense of humor and has created a number of challenges to explore the contention by Elon Musk that his cars, when equipped with nothing more than an array of cameras and a computer that can perform gazillions of operations per second, are able to drive themselves. Virtually every other manufacturer who claims its cars are capable of driving without the aid of a human use a suite of sensors that include lidar and/or radar — devices that Elon swears are superfluous.