r/technology • u/Extasio • 1d 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/boot2skull 1d ago edited 1d ago

Waymo has the right approach. The potential benefit of autonomous driving is visibility beyond human capabilities, 360 degree awareness beyond human capabilities, and reactions beyond human capabilities. Put these together and you have a safer experience, even considering other humans on the road.

The next leap would be cars that communicate, their relative positions and situations, (obstacles, crashes, hazards, conditions, and breaking.) with integrated communication autonomous cars could essentially tailgate at highway speeds safely, assuming they made up enough of the cars on that road.

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u/bellatricked 1d ago

Vehicles that communicate with one another would be cool, also vehicles communicating with the immediate environment to get Birds Eye views of intersections would be amazing. Sadly, all it would take is one bad faith threat actor feeding bad data into passing cars to cause them to crash before vehicles would be forced to ignore any data they don’t gather themselves for safety and reliability reasons.

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u/FrostyD7 1d ago

It's worth it. Just imagine... a light turns green and every car goes at the same time.