Musk insists Tesla doesn't need 'ridiculous' and 'expensive' lidar for its self-driving future
April 22, 2019 at 17:34 PM EDT
Nearly every other company working on autonomous driving technology — from Google to global automakers like General Motors and Audi — are using computers that analyze data from a combination of lidar, radar and cameras to guide their vehicles. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk insists that "lidar is a fools errand."