A human could drive the car with just the sensor input so in a very real way this is not correct. I agree that Tesla still has a long way to go though.
With just the low dynamic range fixed framerate monocular camera input? I’m not sure I could. Also, everyone knows computers still aren’t as good at vision recognition as humans are.
The difference is that human can do true inference, whereas that's not really attainable even with the best in class ML models. So until we make breakthroughs in AI reasoning, we still need aides like LIDAR in order to workaround current limitations.
What does true inference mean?
If I see a motorcycle go behind a billboard and not come out, I can reason that there is a motorcycle behind a billboard. I assume that's what they mean.
Maybe ML researchers should try growing a live, organic human brain in the lab, rather than writing code.
Inb4 Dr. Frankenstein was the first ML pioneer.
Humans can do a lot of things computers cannot do. Computers can do a lot of things humans cannot do.