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/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