Rivian CEO: Tesla is going all in on cameras, but self-driving cars still need LiDAR

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says his company has a different view on LiDAR and its relevance to achieving autonomous driving than Tesla. "Our view is that it's definitely beneficial, and our approach to sensors has been that we need to rapidly build our foundation model as fast as possible," Scaringe told The Verge's "Decoder" podcast in an episode that aired Monday.Scaringe told guest host and journalist Joanna Stern that there is a "real benefit" and that he "wouldn't rule out" including it in a self-driving ...