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"While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software is ready for the EV maker’s competing robotaxi service.
Just this week, a Tesla driver plowed through a deer without even a hint of slowing down with the $8,000 add-on feature turned on, and another smashed into someone else’s car when its owner employed its Summon feature."…
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Musk: “We’ve spared no expense!”
Critics: “So, LiDAR?”
Musk: “We’ve spared some expense!”
Even worse, LIDAR isn’t even that expensive. Musky just thought they should be able to do without it because, “humans do it with just eyes.”
Just so no one mistakes the above as hyperbolic, musk actually said this during an engineering meeting. His engineers kept telling him why Tesla needed the extra sensors, and he replied “people just have eyes and they can drive.”
Anytime someone tries to play him off an engineer or anything but a lucky gambler and flim flam man, just remember the above.
and he replied “people just have eyes and they can drive.”
People also have a brain. Most of them even use it when driving.
Most
Ah, an optimist!
More money tho.
