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Tesla Places Big Bet on Vision-Only Self-Driving

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Cameras are dirt cheap compared to lidar,” he says. “By Weinberger and colleagues made a breakthrough in 2019 by converting camera-based depth estimations into the same kind of 3D point clouds used by lidar, significantly improving accuracy. That’s controversial due to the lack of redundancy that comes with relying on a single sensor.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

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EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. Interestingly, a 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study predicted that as EVs became more widespread, battery prices would climb because the demand for lithium and other battery metals would rise sharply.

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