TLDR: Tesla thinks LIDAR hardware is more expensive than the performance improvement it provides.
I didn't like his line of logic about how vision is necessary and sufficient, because that's how humans drive. Okay sure, but if some combinations of non-human sensors could drive better and/or cheaper than a vision only driving system, surely he would not argue for sticking with vision only? Maybe adding non-vision sensors lets you save hardware and software resources on the vision part of the system.
I didn't like his line of logic about how vision is necessary and sufficient, because that's how humans drive. Okay sure, but if some combinations of non-human sensors could drive better and/or cheaper than a vision only driving system, surely he would not argue for sticking with vision only? Maybe adding non-vision sensors lets you save hardware and software resources on the vision part of the system.