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Tesla vehicle engineering VP Lars Moravy has floated using focused lasers to clear water from Robotaxi camera views. He described it as an idea Tesla is considering, not a confirmed feature or a solution with a launch date.

The practical problem is specific to driverless fleets: there is no passenger at the wheel to notice a camera has become obscured. Moravy said clearing only the camera’s view could be practical, while using lasers across the whole windscreen would require too many of them. Teslarati attributes the comments to an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage. For now, this is a possible fix, not hardware heading to Robotaxis.

Discuss: Would you trust a laser-based camera cleaner in a driverless taxi, or stick with conventional wipers and washers?

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