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It ditched radars and initiateda camera-only approach, dubbed Tesla Vision.

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Woven Planet’s camera-based approach to self-driving could avoid Tesla’s mistakes

Thats because the high cost of radar and LiDAR sensors doesnt allow for an at scale deployment.

Low-cost cameras, on the other hand, could enable access to a huge corpus of data.

But on the downside, they generally come with certain limitations.

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Whether camera technology will eventually advance to the point that it overtakes the other sensors is unknown.

Whats important for now is that Woven Planet isnt following Teslas controversial footsteps.

Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou

Ioanna is a writer at TNW.

Ioanna Lykiardopoulou

With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.

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