Why Doesn’t Tesla Use LiDAR?
On the fourth-quarter Tesla earnings call in 2020, CEO Elon Musk said even if someone gives Tesla free LiDAR, they will not use it. So why doesn’t Tesla use LiDAR? According to Tesla and Elon Musk, it’s because LiDAR is expensive, redundant, unreliable. Tesla Cameras and its neural net computer can reconstruct a 3D world …