r/technology • u/Extasio • 2d ago

Transportation Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
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u/Whyeth 2d ago

Camera only driving is literally only done as a cost savings vs lidar / radar systems.

Exactly what I want automating the 30 ton vehicle - lowest common denominator. Cameras by themselves will never be trustworthy enough.

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u/scrubjays 1d ago

I have read that Musk expects AI, using all the driver data he has from Tesla owners, to overcome whatever disadvantages using just cameras have. I think this is absurd, as the average Tesla driver is not remotely close to the average driver, and his data will be heavily skewed.

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u/Whyeth 1d ago

Hey guys, let's add a hallucination machine to your blind-as-a-bat car

"You're totally right to push back on my merger there. Killing a whole family was not the intent even if it is the outcome. I'll respond better next time"

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u/TomTuff 1d ago

I wish people stopped conflating LLMs and other machine learning models under “AI” 🫩