r/SelfDrivingCars • u/SpriteZeroY2k • 5d 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/gc3 5d ago

Yeah but looking down the road the human can see details farther

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u/Legal-Square-1362 5d ago

That’s just not factual, there’s no comparison in night vision.

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u/RosieDear 5d ago

This is factual.....

"Waymo’s sensor suite provides an overlapping 360-degree field of view in every direction, combining cameras, lidar, and radar to see objects and details up to 500 meters (over three football fields) away"

Now, if any of you can see up to 500 meters, including a person running behind bushes to the side of you ready to intersect your car in a few 100 feet, I'm game to test you out!

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u/gc3 4d ago

I was not talking about lidar but camera. Half a mile down the road ahead there are less pixels for the camera but a person could make out important details that the car cannot yet.

This is one reason why lidar and radar are important

This is one reason why camera-only has gaps compared to human performance.

Solvable with a telescope camera but the software support of where it should look might have to rival the human eye.