Ex-Tesla Autopilot head criticizes camera-only approach

Sterling Anderson, GM's chief product officer and head of Tesla's Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016, called the camera-only approach 'a weird religious stance that ignores physics.' In an interview with The Verge published October 27, he said 'cameras can't see through dense fog or measure instantaneous velocity like radar can.' Anderson also argued that lidar helps camera systems improve faster when the two are trained together. GM's Cadillac Escalade IQ is due to debut its 'eyes-off' system in 2028, with lidar, radar, and cameras.…

• Anderson: 'a weird religious stance that ignores physics' on vision-only driving.
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