--- title: New Jersey's robotaxi bill could ban Tesla over lidar description: New Jersey is advancing a bill that would require fully driverless vehicles to use cameras plus two additional sensing modalities — effectively mandating lidar... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-jersey-s-robotaxi-bill-could-ban-tesla-over-lidar-k1pce4agz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New Jersey's robotaxi bill could ban Tesla over lidar | daily.dev og:description: New Jersey is advancing a bill that would require fully driverless vehicles to use cameras plus two additional sensing modalities — effectively mandating lidar... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-jersey-s-robotaxi-bill-could-ban-tesla-over-lidar-k1pce4agz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/k1pCE4AGZ.png og:image:alt: New Jersey's robotaxi bill could ban Tesla over lidar og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New Jersey's robotaxi bill could ban Tesla over lidar **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary New Jersey is advancing a bill that would require fully driverless vehicles to use cameras plus two additional sensing modalities — effectively mandating lidar and radar. Tesla's camera-only Robotaxi would be barred from operating in the state unless it changes hardware. The bill also restricts marketing of partial automation systems like Tesla's Full Self-Driving, classifying misleading names as consumer fraud. A similar bill is pending in New York. Tesla is actively lobbying against the legislation and emailing customers to oppose it. The bill's sponsor, a physicist and state senator, says the measure is about safety, not targeting Tesla specifically. With no federal framework for autonomous vehicles, state-level mandates like this could set a precedent that forces Tesla to choose between adding lidar or being locked out of major markets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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