Why Tesla Won’t Use LIDAR

And which technology is ideal for self-driving cars

German Sharabok
Towards Data Science
6 min readSep 1, 2020

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Almost every single company working on self-driving cars right now uses LIDAR. Uber, Waymo, and Toyota all use it, but not Tesla. I want to go over what the two competing technologies have to offer and what we should expect from self-driving cars in the future.

Lidar VS Vision

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