LiDAR
also referred to as: lidars
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2024 by Andrej Karpathy · across every show →
Everything said about LiDAR, oldest first
Sep 5, 2024 positive
Tesla Uses LiDAR During Training for Its Vision-Only Autonomous Stack
“Tesla actually does use a lot of expensive sensors. They just do it at training time. So there are a bunch of cars that drive around with LIDARs. They do a bunch of stuff that like doesn't scale and they have extra sensors, et cetera, and they do mapping and a…”
Oct 24, 2024 bearish
Dolgov: Camera-only systems are not safe enough for full autonomy
“Same, same for us. We can, you know, take something away and we can answer that question. Like, is the performance, can you still drive? Of course. Is the performance good enough? For full autonomy, and is it good enough for our bar of readiness and safety? An…”
Feb 20, 2025 bearish
Vogt: Winning Autonomous Driving Stacks in 2025 Will Not Require LiDAR
“If you're making a bet on the right technical approach in 20, 25, it does not involve a bunch of expensive LIDARs or exotic sensors. It involves the most commodity is sort of, you know, high volume, readily available sensors you can get, and probably just seve…”
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Scaringe: Onboard inference is 10x more expensive than autonomous perception sensors
“Radars are extremely cheap. LiDars are now, you know, very, very cheap. But the really expensive part of the system is actually the onboard inference. And so that's like an order imagine more expensive than any of the perception stack.”