Adding a LIDAR will add a problem of "the system couldn't decide between believing a lidar or camera, decided to go with LIDAR which was wrong, and smashed into a perfectly visible wall".
Plus with LIDAR being an active system you're more likely to see nothing or garbage where the ground and a road is supposed to be. Good idea to stop if there's a hole in reality!
With camera+AI it's the opposite. For too many things AI won't really know what they are - it's mainly looking for things that it does recognize. With unclassified pixels everywhere, of course the default is to ignore what it doesn't understand, otherwise the system would never work. You can see this with the Tesla happily driving through some unrecognized pixels.
LIDAR-based systems can operate without having to unsafely ignore things that they can't account for or that don't make sense.
Look at what he did at twitter. As soon as he was put in charge he removed all safety measures to save money and now twitter is full of bots and scammers. Why do people assume he runs Tesla any differently??
Tesla is selling a driver assisted system that can't reliably turn the car or park it without manual intervention a decent percent of the time.
If I remember right it was lidar overriding the camera as the set up when Tesla was using lidar...
Merging a camera with a camera, and a camera with a completely different kind of a sensor cannot be "the same problem". It's absurd.