Sterling Anderson: Tesla’s Radar Drop Ignores Physics — SkimNews
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- Sterling Anderson is GM’s Chief Product Officer and ran Tesla’s Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016.
- Tesla dropped radar in favor of a camera-only self-driving system, the approach Anderson challenged.
- Sterling Anderson called that choice “a weird religious stance that ignores physics.”
- Autopilot was the program Anderson helped build, and the article calls his criticism the bluntest rebuke yet of Tesla’s vision-only bet.
Why it matters: Tesla’s camera-only strategy now carries an unusually direct technical challenge from Sterling Anderson, who ran its Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016. His argument that removing radar ignores physics puts the company’s autonomy design choice against the judgment of a former program leader, rather than outside critics alone.
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