The former NASA engineer wanted to test how Tesla’s camera-only approach to self-driving stacks up against lidar. The former NASA engineer wanted to test how Tesla’s camera-only approach to ...

Tesla Autopilot drove into a Looney Tunes, Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road. This was the outcome of a camera versus LiDAR test for autonomous driving by Youtuber and ...

But it is noteworthy just how effective the LiDAR system was shown to be in the video, as Tesla has very publicly decided to forgo these sensors in favor of relying entirely on computer vision.

It was essentially a comparison test between Tesla’s camera-only autopilot/FSD system and LiDAR systems, with the LiDAR vehicle running Luminar’s system. The experiment tested whether the cars ...

The buzz of the self-driving world this week was a video by Mark Rober, one YouTube’s biggest stars, comparing Tesla’s camera-based Autopilot to a LIDAR equipped car with some obstacles ...

Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test. While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a ...

Except for one notable exception: Tesla. Lidar, which works by firing laser beams to capture a car’s surroundings in three dimensions as a way to assess its environment, is widely used in the ...

Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk doubled down on his longtime skepticism of LiDAR technology on Thursday following the videos of YouTubers testing his EV vehicles against a ‘Wile E. Coyote' fake ...

Rober praised LiDAR tech company Luminar so often throughout the segment that viewers questioned whether the footage was tampered with as part of an elaborate advertisement. “Tesla needs to pull ...

Experts have long warned that the EV maker's cameras-only approach is dangerous, especially when LIDAR and radar exist as alternatives. Worse yet, Tesla is planning to roll out an "unsupervised ...