[phire]

Why tie your hands behind your back?

LIDAR based self-driving cars will always massively exceed the safety and performance of vision-only self driving cars.

Current Tesla cameras+computer vision is nowhere near as good as humans. But LIDAR based self-driving cars already have way better situational awareness in many scenarios. They are way closer to actually delivering.

[kimixa]

And what driver wouldn't want extra senses, if they could actually meaningfully be used? The goal is to drive well on public roads, not some "Hands Tied Behind My Back" competition.

[tliltocatl]

Because any active sensor is going to jam other such sensors once there are too many of them on the road. This is sad but true.