Hier een stukje uit VB (Venture Beat) van een interview met Elon over autonoom rijden:
6. More sensors may be needed to get to full autonomy
In response to a question from Mike Ramsey of The Wall Street Journal, Musk suggested that the existing sensor suite might not be sufficient to provide today’s Model S cars with full autonomy capabilities in future years.
Those cars’ “sensor suite is not a full-autonomy suite,” he said.
“You would need redundant forward cameras and computing hardware, and 360-degree cameras,” among other sensor additions, he suggested.
In addition, a totally autonomous vehicle would require “a redundant steering rack” and additional redundancy for any “computer systems that could fail” in use.
It’s possible, Musk said, to “do it all with passive optical and one forward radar if driving fast into rain, snow, and dust.”
But, he said, Tesla cars don’t need Lidar for full autonomy. “I’m not a big fan of it, and you don’t need in this use,” he stated, adding, “We do use it in Dragon spacecraft, but I don’t think it makes sense in a car context; it’s unnecessary.”