@Dan Roberts FLIR is just that... An IR tuned camera/sensor. When available it will greatly enhance safety and reliability of automated driving systems.
Eg at night, in low light, no light, and in obscured light (heavy rain, fog, etc)
It's plausible Telsa's abandonment of Radar and Lidar maybe to adopt a visual spectrum IR spectrum hybrid.
The video linked shows an option to display an IR image enhanced to present as a visible spectrum image.
Cameras are great. Cameras can be “tuned” to see different spectrums. Tesla has more or less proven that vision is the way combined with AI.