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Elon Musk in 2019 on LiDAR: “They’re all going to dump LIDAR; that’s my prediction. I should point out that I don’t actually super hate LIDAR as much as it may sound. But at SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon uses LIDAR to navigate to the space station and dock. Not only that, SpaceX developed its own LIDAR from scratch to do that, and I spearheaded that effort personally. Because in that scenario, LIDAR makes sense. In cars, it’s freaking stupid. Once you solve Vision, it’s worthless.”
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