Waymo Co-CEO: Camera-Only Self-Driving Can't Reach Full AutonomyWaymo联合CEO:纯摄像头方案无法实现完全自动驾驶
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Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov, speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School, said "weak sensing" — his term for camera-only systems — hits a safety ceiling well short of the performance needed for full autonomy, in what Electrek calls the clearest technical case yet against camera-only self-driving.
Though he never named Tesla, whose self-driving bet rests entirely on cameras, Dolgov drew on nearly two decades of building Waymo's driver and Waymo's 220 million driverless miles, arguing that humans driving "with just eyes" is only "proof of existence" for camera-only viability, not proof it's sufficient.
The remarks reignite the industry-wide debate over minimum sensor requirements for autonomous driving, a foundational architecture choice — camera-only vs. multi-sensor fusion — that separates Tesla's and Waymo's competing approaches to full self-driving.