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Waymo blog post calls camera-only self-driving a 'false summit'

Waymo published a blog post on August 26 by VP of Onboard Software Srikanth Thirumalai, titled '10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million Fully Autonomous Miles,' arguing that camera-only self-driving hits a false summit where early gains plateau well short of the safety level required for driverless robotaxis, and that only redundant sensing across cameras, lidar, and radar closes the gap. The post, published a week before Tesla's planned September 3 Cybercab unveiling, is widely read as a rebuttal to Tesla's vision-only approach and Elon Musk's past dismissal of lidar as a fool's errand.

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