This is sort of a misguided take IMO - as if LiDAR and other sensor streams are somehow not large scale data while video is

The bitter lesson isn’t fundamentally even about data. the key ingredient is computation (which does scale with data in modern deep learning). There’s even a whole theme on search outperforming learning - until learning methods changed to leverage computation!

I think in a lot of applications, richer data yields better scaling performance. So the bet for self driving is that the complexity of multiple sensor fusion gives a much better constant factor or exponent in the power law scaling of performance with data and compute