New Jersey Bill Would Require Robotaxis to Add Two More Sensor Types Beyond Cameras, Challenging Tesla's Vision-Only Approach新泽西州法案拟要求Robotaxi在摄像头之外加装两类传感器,直接冲击特斯拉纯视觉路线
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New Jersey has proposed a bill to launch a three-year pilot program for testing and deploying fully autonomous vehicles statewide, with a vote expected later this year; it would require such vehicles to be equipped with cameras plus two additional types of sensors, a mandate that conflicts with Tesla's camera-only autonomy hardware strategy.
Before companies can remove human safety monitors, the bill requires at least 50,000 miles of supervised testing on New Jersey roads without a major incident, plus mandatory reporting of certain crashes and state approval before any commercial robotaxi service can launch.
Because Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted on a camera-only sensor suite for the company's robotaxi ambitions, this multi-sensor mandate could effectively keep Tesla's robotaxis out of New Jersey unless it changes its hardware approach, highlighting a widening gap between Tesla's vision-only bet and regulators' growing preference for multi-sensor redundancy in autonomous driving.