>"Computer vision based pipelines are theoretically capable of providing the same depth information as LIDAR, using stereo, camera arrays or even monocular SLAM."

Are there any companies that are taking the purely computer vision approach then?

>"(IIRC they have an Nvidia X2 and GP106 onboard, which only have a total of about 4 SPFP TFLOPs)."

Can you say how far off is that compute power from what is actually required for a "full self-driving" car?