[BulgarianIdiot]

> Setting aside comparisons to humans for a second (will get back to this), monocular cameras can only provide relative depth. You can guess the absolute depth with your neural net but the estimates are pretty garbage.

Stereoscopic vision in humans only works for nearby objects. The divergence for far away objects is not sufficient for this. You may think you can tell something is 50 or 55 meters away through stereoscopic vision, but you can't. That's your brain estimating based on effectively a single image.

That said reality is not a single image, it's a moving image, a video. Monocular video can still be used to estimate object distance in motion.

Eventually AI will be good enough to work better than humans with just a camera. The problem is we're not there yet, and what Tesla is doing is irresponsible. They should've added LIDAR and used that to train their camera-only models, until they're ready to take over.