[mft_]

Indeed; once again, Musk is making it hard in the shorter-term for himself/Tesla by going a route based on a totally different vision (i.e. eschewing LIDAR) to the rest of the industry.

Time will tell whether he'll win out in the long term; will this be another landing and reusing rockets moment, or will his approach to self-driving cars be a relative failure?

[jjeaff]

Seeing as he has to know that the cost of Lidar will continue to fall precipitously, I have to believe the only reason he is actually going all in on cameras only is because he has to be able to continue selling the fantasy that the Tesla you buy today will be fully autonomous with nothing more than a software update.