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Terrence O'Brien
Someone should tell Elon about these really cool technologies called radar and lidar.

Musk has famously insisted that cameras are enough for his self-driving cars, when everyone else is pairing them with more advanced sensors. Now He’s explicitly said that his Robotaxis can’t run at night because it’s dark — a problem lidar and radar could easily solve.

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