So is the claim by Elon Musk that current iterations of Tesla vehicles have all of the sensors and compute power needed to be fully autonomous (Level 4+ I guess?) in the future, via software updates only, a specious one?
But at the moment it seems a strange position to take: we know LIDAR data is useful in many circumstances, and we know it can solve a number of the hard parts of computer vision.
He says a lot of things.