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Is Elon wrong about LiDAR? (youtu.be)
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[–] feddylemmy 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's disingenuous to compare a Tesla care that has far less autonomous capabilities with a car that is fully driverless. Tesla cars are more of a stopgap between "normal" cars and fully autonomous cars. To compare a Tesla car that requires a driver behind the wheel and one that doesn't is, in my opinion, a silly comparison. Of course they will have different levels of required sensors.

I agree that if LIDAR is too expensive, it's a hindrance into the changeover from "normal" cars to more self-driving cars for the average consumer. But again, to compare a car that has it's design goals to be for the average consumer based on price and a car that has it's design goals to be fully autonomous is silly.

[–] drdabbles 4 points 2 years ago

Of course it's disingenuous to compare an ADAS and an ADS vehicle, but certain Tesla marketing personalities do it constantly. I'm not even sure I'd be generous enough to say that Tesla's system is a stop gap between ADAS and ADS since it's only a very basic ADAS in the first place. 🤷‍♂️

[–] dragontamer 4 points 2 years ago

It’s disingenuous to compare a Tesla care that has far less autonomous capabilities with a car that is fully driverless.

The CEO of this company was saying "Coast to Coast full self driving"

“Our goal is, and I feel pretty good about this goal, that we’ll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York, from home in LA to let’s say dropping you off in Time Square in New York, and then having the car go park itself, by the end of next year,” he said on a press call today. “Without the need for a single touch, including the charger.”

This is a quote from 2017. Elon Musk has never stopped claiming that Teslas will do this.