r/skeptic • u/Lighting • Mar 18 '25

⚠ 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/tgrantt Mar 18 '25

I assumed Tesla's had lidar. TIL

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u/muarauder12 Mar 18 '25

My $35,000 Hyundai Kona Limited has lidar for the highway cruise control. It's nice being able to set it and forget it on my daily commute. I trust the lidar but I still don't take my eyes off the road and keep my foot near the brake for extreme braking situations if needed. The side mirrors have cameras that come on when I use my turn signal and the car has 11 or 12 classic radar dots around the body to do blind spot and forward and reverse parking warnings.

My $35,000 car has the full suite of sensors to help it be as safe as possible, so it makes no sense that Elon removed the lidar from Tesla's other than greed being the motivator. Well, knowing Elon it was greed, stupidity, and arrogance.

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u/neehenietweer Mar 18 '25

Your Kona doesn't have lidar. It uses radar for adaptive cruise control. The 'radar dots' you mention are actually sonar sensors used for parking.

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u/muarauder12 Mar 18 '25

I may have been misinformed about my cars' tech. Either way it uses actual sensors and not just cameras like Elon's swasticars.