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Vision-only autonomy from first principles
Musk's insistence on vision-only self-driving and removing radar derives from a first-principles argument: humans drive with visual input alone, so the laws of physics provide no reason vision-only cannot achieve self-driving; LiDAR-based or map-based approaches cannot scale to millions of cars, though Musk has been overly optimistic about meeting self-driving deadlines.
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Walter IsaacsonEvidence Quote
“it gets back to the first principles... humans drive with only visual input. They don’t have radar, they don’t have LiDAR, they don’t have sonar, and so there is no reason in the laws of physics that make it so that vision only won’t be successful”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:32:08 AM
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