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Technology Stocks : Tesla EVs - TSLA
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From: i-node9/20/2025 2:33:57 PM
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After last week's patent news of Tesla having patented self-driving via computer vision, comes this news, as if right on schedule:

"Tesla Scores Win as NHTSA Adopts Performance-Based Rules for Autonomous Vehicles. Regulators will focus on setting objective performance targets that a vehicle’s autonomous system must meet, regardless of the hardware or methods it uses to achieve them. The system will be judged based on what it can actually do, not what and how many sensors it has."


This is a killer finding for Tesla. It doesn't kill, but make irrelevant (and bogus) SAE guidelines for "self driving".. Guidelines which effectively claimed that without a redundant system (==> LiDAR) you couldn't have "true" self-driving (i.e., Level 5).

Now, as discussed last week, Tesla seemingly owns the rights to Computer Vision-only self-driving and could put Tesla in the cat-bird's set for some time to come.

Maybe it will be end up being nothing, but it looks to me like a giant win for Tesla. It seems like at the very least it gives Tesla a lot more freedom than those companies who have foolishly bought in the LiDAR requirement, at least until LiDAR prices drop substantially.
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