Jin Daily AI Trivia: Turns out Elon was right all along. Time to ditch LiDAR and copy Tesla (again)
By Shee Tze Jin
Jin Daily AI Trivia: Turns out Elon was right all along. Time to ditch LiDAR and copy Tesla (again)
Xpeng Motors has officially abandoned LiDAR, moving to a pure vision-based autonomous driving solution.
In fact, Xpeng stopped using LiDAR starting with last year’s P7+ model.
Remember when other carmakers claimed LiDAR was the superior choice and that Elon was being “stupid” and just cutting costs? Well… they might need to start walking back those comments while quietly copying his approach.
Oh, and Elon did reply to the news with a 😂.

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