I thlamed my penith in the car door

"Wow, such a brilliant CEO! Cutting waste where it truly matters." - fanbois/bots everywhere

Ah human eyes have never caused a car accident.

This is the same energy as blizzard saying "you've got phones don't you?"

Teslas are cheap crap, for a premium price, this has always been the case

In theory he's not wrong, except for that part where neither the optics nor (especially) the software come anywhere close to matching the performance of human eyes and brains and won't for the foreseeable future.

The worst part is that LiDAR isn’t even expensive anymore. Hell, my phone has LiDAR. He originally said that to justify the fact that they were dealing with a component shortage and he needed to keep shipping vehicles. So he simply shipped them without the LiDAR systems that he couldn’t get ahold of, and claimed it was because he didn’t need LiDAR.

But now LiDAR is much more advanced and cheaper. But since he refused to admit it was because of a component shortage, adding LiDAR now would require Musk to publicly admit he was wrong. And we all know that will never happen.

The entire premise of the joke is that we could mistake a sufficiently detailed image of a road for an actual road. That humans are susceptible to such a failure does not mean it is reasonable for a robot to share the same flaw.

To be clear, Elon Musk removed radar from Tesla vehicles and not Lidar, but a) he had it removed even from vehicles that had the hardware for radar and b) radar would have been enough to pass all the tests in the video anyway.

You didn't see the quote in the above comment that specifically states Teslas don't have lidar but other brands using it weren't fooled?

They removed radar in 2021 for cost-cutting reasons and have never had LiDAR, which Elon called "a fool's errand".

Source: I worked on their ADAS systems.