The news Thursday of the first traffic fatality of a driver using the semi-autonomous Tesla Autopilot system highlights a number of important issues. First and foremost is that Autopilot does not magically transform a current Model S or X into a self-driving car. Far from it in fact.  This crash also highlights that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was almost certainly wrong when said last fall, “I don’t think you need Lidar. I think you can do this all with passive optical and then with maybe one forward radar.”

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