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You aren't wrong, but my assumption was (perhaps incorrectly?) that they would add Lidar sensors in addition to their cameras, not replace them.

Basically every AV company except Tesla is doing cameras + LIDAR. Tesla decided to do camera-only for definitely-not-cost-cutting-reasons.

> “… camera-only for definitely-not-cost-cutting-reasons.”

Is this sarcasm?

Yes