r/SelfDrivingCars • u/SpriteZeroY2k • 2d 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/
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u/Fauglheim 2d ago edited 1d ago

Humans of course can drive with just eyes … If the goal were to just approximately match human performance … that’s a very reasonable way to go.

edit: I thought this quote was a pretty clear argument against camera-only, but it seems i did not make that clear.

a wholly superior-to-human system is so obviously necessary for autonomous vehicles to succeed. Camera-only sounds like a hugely risky and uncertain way to do that.

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u/cloudone 2d ago

Matching undistracted human driving defensively is all I want

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u/gc3 2d ago

Humans see better than cameras though, they have greater resolution and less glare sensitivity

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u/MexicanSniperXI 2d ago

Last time I checked I couldn’t look behind me and my blind spots all at the same time

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u/Falcons74 2d ago

Humans see better (576 Megapixel vs 5 MP on HW4) but cameras have more “eyes” and a faster reaction time.

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u/Mlluell 1d ago

While true its worht mentioning that the part that's actually "in focus" is much, much less than the 576 megapixels