[jkeddo]

They are standing firm on the vision-only approach because it is the correct approach. FSD cannot be perfected unless the Tesla team puts 100% exclusive focus on perfecting vision based models that don't have lidar as a fallback. Tesla can only use lidar again for redundancy only after vision is fully solved problem.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BurningTheShips

[r00fus]

So the beatings will continue until morale improves, eh?

This is like saying we need to get to the moon using steam power and ONLY THEN we can improve by using rockets. What if it's completely infeasible to solely use vision for FSD?

Even humans use audio processing to augment the vision.

[seanmcdirmid]

Combing multiple sensory inputs is a hard problem in itself. Say Tesla uses LIDAR with vision...they can have a great vision experience, a great LIDAR experience, but fuses those two experiences together can create lots of problems that wind up being worse than either by itself.