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Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was a supply chain problem. No one could get lidar during Covid. Musk's solution was to lie and say Tesla didn't need lidar.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure this is not true at all.

https://insideevs.com/news/718859/tesla-luminar-top-customer-2024/

"What we’re going to explain to you today is that lidar is a fool’s errand," said Musk during a 2019 investors' event. "Anyone relying on lidar is doomed. Doomed. Expensive sensors that are unnecessary."

It’s just him being crazy. Apparently he does this: He just decides that some particular thing is the right decision, and doubles down on it to the ends of the earth just because he decided it. It apparently really fucks up the engineering at companies he’s involved in, because that is about the worst possible way you could do your engineering.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Because he's a raging narcicist who thinks he's the most qualified to run the world and anyone who disagrees must be wrong because how could someone so rich be wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, that was the lie to cover for their part sourcing problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That was in May of 2019. It is fairly unlikely that they were having Covid-related supply chain problems at that point that they needed to lie to cover up.