A while ago people called Musk out on only using cameras when better options existed(for reasons exactly like this one), and he had a little tanty about it like the normal adult man he is. I have no doubt turning off existing radar features is a spiteful move because he got his feelings hurt.

Yeah this is the reason Tesla is massively overvalued. Self drive tech won't be coming from Tesla because Musk interfered and told his engineers to remove lidar.

Musk is nothing but an investor but he believes his own nonsense about being a genius. He made some good bets but he also made some bad ones (Twitter being one) and Tesla is not going to justify irs crazy shareprice. Even having fallen 50% from peak it is way overvalued.

Anywhere Tesla can cut corners and save money, they do. The real reason they don't use it is lidar is expensive but lying about self driving is free.

Why have more data when you can crash through walls with less data?

Now imagine what the boy genius is doing for the us govt.

Supposedly there's a difference between 'Full Self Driving' and 'Autopilot' (the later is what Mark used in the video). I'm not convinced there's any meaningful difference for a test like this though.

Changing the software behind them isn't going to magically give cameras the power to see through visual hindrances like rain/fog, or detect range to a nearby object that appears far away (like a painted wall).