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Tesla is in big trouble, as FSD may need to be completely overhauled.
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17 July 2026
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regulatory
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Fusion42 · 17 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
New Jersey's Bill S1677 mandates dual-sensor redundancy for L3 autonomous vehicles and LiDAR for L4 systems, directly incompatible with Tesla's pure-vision architecture. Simultaneous divergent regulatory regimes in the US and China signal fragmented autonomous driving legislation that will force Tesla to choose between market access and fundamental technical restructuring.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you're building autonomous vehicles on vision-only stacks, New Jersey just closed one major US market and signalled others will follow. You now have to choose: redesign your entire neural network for sensor fusion, or accept geographic fragmentation and build two products.
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Autonomous Vehicles · autonomous-vehicles · regulatory-fragmentation · sensor-mandates · fsd-architecture · market-access