[ojn]

That falls apart as soon as the map and the real world deviates and you need to drive based on what’s in front of you.

Lidar helps you spot obstructions, but won’t tell you what they are and won’t help you figure out what to do to avoid them.

Want an example? Cruise’s first real world demo got stuck behind a simple taco truck in downtown SF.

[antpls]

The parent meant : gather training data with Lidar and Camera, then build a model with that data to learn to reconstruct a 3D space only from Camera data, and then embed that model in the cars.

Tesla is already using a model to rebuild a 3D space from Camera data only, the parent suggests to improve the quality of the transformation with high quality 3D representations from Lidar.

It's deep learning all the way down.