He drove a Lexus car equipped with LiDAR, and a Tesla, which relied on its camera-based system, towards a child-sized dummy at 64km/h. The LiDAR-equipped car quickly detected the obstacle and came to a safe stop.

Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, has demonstrated that its self-driving system allows vehicles to travel 17,311 miles between human interventions. In contrast, Tesla’s misleadingly named Full Self-Driving (FSD) software requires corrections every 71 miles. Waymo’s cars are not perfect, but they are light-years ahead of Tesla’s.