Ex-Tesla Autopilot head calls vision-only a 'weird religious stance'

Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla's Autopilot in 2015–2016 and is now GM's chief product officer, criticized Tesla's camera-only approach as "a weird religious stance that ignores physics." He said cameras can't see through dense fog or measure instantaneous velocity like radar, which is cheap enough to keep.

• Anderson led Autopilot in 2015–2016 and is now GM's chief product officer
• Tesla removed radar from Model 3 and Model Y in May 2021
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• The probe counts nine crashes, including a pedestrian death