The future is coming, but Elon Musk will not be the guy who ushers it in. For one, this is just a dumb decision: It both means a crippled safety package today,

The future is coming, but Elon Musk will not be the guy who ushers it in. For one, this is just a dumb decision: It both means a crippled safety package today, and one less sensor one can use tomorrow. Considering Tesla hasn't actually developed self-driving capability, they can't actually say for certain if the hardware that is on the cars today is enough or not. (Any time they promise you've purchased a car that has everything it needs to do this, Tesla is lying, because they can't know the requirements of a system they haven't yet produced.) It certainly is only going backwards on the likelihood that there is once they start removing sensors.