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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by thunky on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:17AM (#47122653)
> Why make things more complicated than they need to be? Humans don't have lidar and we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive.

Because we want self driving cars to be safer than human driven cars.

If humans had built in lidar we would use it when driving.

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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by bko on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:46PM (#47129390)
Read the comment again. It's not that vision is "good enough", it's that feature engineering doesn't work
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