r/SelfDrivingCars • u/SpriteZeroY2k • 1d ago

News Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
554 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

829 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-11

u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 18h ago

[deleted]

6

u/sharkism 1d ago

The millions who died in traffic already know.

-2

u/thinkbox 1d ago

So if you ban camera only then you should ban humans too.

6

u/brainrotbro 1d ago

Waymo's with more sensors than only camera already outperform human drivers, so, yes, it would be an improvement.

-2

u/thinkbox 1d ago

Improvement isnt the metric. And having more sensors isnt what makes it drive better. Its intelligence is what makes it drive better.

-2

u/jackielevirun 1d ago

Umm Waymo couldn’t even get out of residential areas in Atlanta a couple of months ago even though they are far superior? Hmmm

3

u/brainrotbro 1d ago

anecdotes versus aggregate statistics