Leaders at one of Tesla's competitors simply don't understand why Elon Musk is so critical of LiDAR . James Philbin, Rivian's head of autonomy, said the EV leader's "rigid point of view" doesn't align with the engineering realities of autonomous vehicles or the declining prices of top-tier sensors, such as LiDAR, which uses lasers to measure distances. "I think they have a very sort of rigid point of view, I guess, on different sensor modalities, which I don't think is fully explainable just