[qwerpy]

I hope this prods Tesla to up their game. I love my Teslas but if Waymo’s approach is shown to be truly better then I’d happily switch to a car that used their tech. For now I have no choice but to stick with the self-driving that’s available for personal cars. Hopefully Waymo works on licensing their tech for other manufacturers and expanding their geographical coverage.

[RivieraKid]

A system for personally owned vehicles has been on the roadmap for a long time.

There's a partnership with Toyota related to this: https://waymo.com/blog/2025/04/waymo-and-toyota-outline-stra...

[UltraSane]

"if Waymo’s approach is shown to be truly better"

Waymo's approach is proven to be better with every public fully autonomous ride they complete.

[rhubarbtree]

Tesla’s approach is smarter than Waymo. Maybe Tesla won’t win, perhaps a Chinese firm, but the winner will follow a vision based system and not a micro-mapping LIDAR system.

“Vision is all you need.”

[corford]

With costs approaching $200 (if Hesai Group is to be believed - and there's no major reason I know of to doubt them), why won't LIDAR win?

[vortegne]

Any evidence for this claim?