“You don’t need lidar to drive a car, so why should the car need lidar to drive the car?” -Elon Musk, like six years ago

I’m sure George Hotz also has some pithy takes on this.

Anyway, this all completely misses the point. Waymo was born of a DARPA challenge and continued to exist to search for even more DoD money. But we don’t need self driving tanks when we can pilot them remotely.