New Jersey bill would require lidar and radar for robotaxis, blocking Tesla's camera-only approach
New Jersey lawmakers are advancing bill S1677, which would require all driverless commercial vehicles to use cameras plus at least two additional sensor types (lidar and radar). This mandate would effectively ban Tesla's camera-only Robotaxi from operating in the state. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Andrew Zwicker, a physicist, after he rode in a Waymo in Phoenix. The legislation targets safety concerns around Tesla's vision-only approach to autonomous driving, which Elon Musk has championed while dismissing lidar and radar as unnecessary.
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State Senator Andrew Zwicker, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, sponsored the bill after riding in a Waymo in Phoenix.
The proposed law, S1677, would effectively lock Tesla out of the most densely populated US state unless it adds the radar and lidar hardware that Elon Musk has spent years insisting his cars don't need.
New Jersey lawmakers are advancing a bill that would require driverless commercial vehicles to carry cameras plus two additional sensor types — a mandate Tesla's camera-only Robotaxi can't meet.
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