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Ford's CEO Has Good Things to Say About Waymo

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Earlier this year, a viral video created by Mark Rober offered many viewers a detailed look at how different forms of self-driving software used technology to see what was in front of them. One of the big takeaways from that video was that Tesla’s technology doesn’t use LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), opting instead for a system of cameras, which meant that it could be, for all intents and purposes, tricked.The ramifications of that differe…

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Ford CEO Jim Farley believes that Waymo's LiDAR-based approach to autonomous driving is more reliable than that of Tesla, who relies solely on camerasJim Farley, CEO of Ford, expresses his scepticism about Tesla's approach to autonomous driving. Tesla relies solely on cameras for its autonomous driving functions, while Waymo uses a combination of cameras, radars and LiDAR. Invited to compare the two systems, Jim Farley...

Although it has lost some of the interest it generated a few years ago, the progress towards autonomous driving in the motor world continues forward, in a progressive and less spectacular way than expected. All car brands are making progress in this field, but there are some that have made autonomous driving one of their identity signs or their identity sign. This is the case of Tesla or Waymo, who have different approaches to the subject and am…

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InsideHook broke the news in on Monday, June 30, 2025.
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