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Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. (futurism.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The probe hones in on one of Tesla's most eyebrow-raising decisions when it comes to its driver assistance package: the insistence on exclusively relying on camera sensors instead of LiDAR and radar like its competitors, which CEO Elon Musk has long derided as a "crutch."

In 2022, the company went all-in on cameras, ditching ultrasonic sensors in its vehicles altogether — a decision that could prove to be a major mistake as it struggles to catch up with its competition and has now promised robust self-driving capabilities to owners who may lack the necessary sensor hardware.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no waayyyy musk is talking shit out his asshole nooo waaay. who saw that comin except, ya know, everyone.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think it was a mistake. I think he just blatantly lied about its capabilities for years.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can honestly believe that he thought it's gonna work. He knows fuck all about anything but he still makes his bad decisions with confidence and thinks he's always right.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can almost guarantee there was at least one engineer who tried to explain why ditching LIDAR was a bad idea, and he ignored them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224/photo/1

Yeah apparently it is a major part of employees' jobs to know how to present good ideas to this fool in a way that he won't shoot it down because he thinks he knows things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably fired them and that guy went to a competitor is more likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I almost added that part, but didn't want some Musk stans to jump down my throat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Never worry about those Musk stan losers.

[–] dgriffith 2 points 2 days ago

Thought process goes like this:

"What's slowing us down, hardware-wise? These lidars are expensive and a pain in the ass. Let's disrupt the status quo and ditch them and just use cameras. People drive around just fine with just stereo vision, after all. It might be hard but once we do it we'll be way ahead of the competition."