Pretty sure humans haven't been striving for drivers licenses for millions of years...
Tesla does use Lidar on a small number of test vehicles for assessing ground truth. However, they have built enough of a data pipeline and fleet data acquisition to use repeat clips to determine ground truth better than human labelers.
But the "system" is so adaptable from bipedal locomotion, spotting predators or prey and identifying unfit food, figure out social hierarchy, human facial expressions that driving a car is easy.
