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by mastax 3507 days ago
> Does the lack of lidar not scare anyone else?

I don't think lacking lidar should be inherently scary, humans don't have lidar sensors either and they do well enough. I do hope that cheap solid state lidars do come to market to improve low visibility driving nonetheless.

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The human eye has an incredible dynamic range (>20 stops). It also have very high resolution at the point of interest. I seriously doubt that Tesla's cameras are anywhere close to the performance of the human eye. LIDAR can also make up for deficiencies in the software. The human CPU is also probably a little more advanced than the one driving this car so anything helps.