> roads and driving laws are all built around human visual processing.

And people die all the time.

> The recent example of a power outage in SF where lidar powered Waymo’s all stopped working when the traffic lights were out and Tesla self driving continued operating normally makes a good case for the approach.

Huh? Waymo is responsible for injury, so all their cars called home at the same time DOS themselves rather than kill someone.

Tesla makes no responsibility and does nothing.

I can’t see the logic the brings vision only as having anything to do lights out. At all.