Is There A Shortcut For Tesla On The Road To Autonomous Vehicles? – Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) | Seeking Alpha

  • Tesla is taking a different route towards full autonomous vehicles compared to other car manufacturers in dispensing with the lidar.
  • This requires the company to generate much more data in order to improve the algorithms required for other sensors to build a 3D model of the environment without a lidar.
  • Some argue this data can only be generated by a host of cars actually driving autonomously, but perhaps there is something of a shortcut.
  • Given the rapid price declines of lidars, we think such a shortcut  is pretty important for Tesla.

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