Hacker News Reader

That remains to be seen; Google has demonstrated that level 3 can be achieved with lidar and cameras, but no one has proved that it can not be achieved with the non-lidar sensor suite that Tesla uses.

Exactly, without lidar no one knows if the software AI will take 1 year to create or 10 years.

There are no specific hardware requirements for any of the levels of autonomy, that I'm aware of.

Humans can drive perfectly fine with just two cameras and mirrors, I'm sure it's possible with Tesla's standard 8 cameras and neural net software.

Humans can drive perfectly well with monocular vision. Plenty of people either only have one eye, or don't integrate 3D for some reason.

The variance on human driving ability is higher than we would accept from a machine, but I have two friends who don't have stereoscopic vision, and I trust both of them to drive me

Human eyes are a lot more advanced than whatever cameras Tesla is mounting in their vehicles. (much better dynamic range, higher resolution, higher low light sensitivity, extremely precise movement detection for judging relative speeds, extremely fast and high precision targeting, etc)