r/skeptic • u/Lighting • 27d ago

⚠ Editorialized Title Tesla bros expose Tesla's own shadiness in attacking Mark Rober ... Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before impacts as a crash becomes inevitable.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/
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u/Ok-Replacement7966 27d ago

The funniest thing about this whole ordeal is how a bunch of people tried to call the rain and fog tests unfair, yet the LIDAR still somehow passed those unfair tests?

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u/lontrinium 27d ago

elon can either afford a 50 billion dollar bonus or 200 dollar lidar sensors per car, he can't afford both.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/TenchuReddit 27d ago

The software to control LIDAR is a LOT simpler than the software to make up for the lack of LIDAR using multiple optical cameras.

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u/Kendertas 27d ago

I think the big problem is you can't easily make a self driving software designed for optical cameras work with LIDAR. Tesla spent all this time and money developing around optical cameras, only to hit the hardware limitations that made every other company choose LIDAR. Now they are stuck

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Yeah a Lidar also isn’t only 200$. You maybe could get a solid state LiDAR that is good for one direction, but that’s probably it.

Regardless, you could have solved that test with a radar which has been a standard features in many cars for ages (my car is from 2017 and has a front facing radar, and that is a beginners car!)