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Ah yes the "flexibility" and "ingenuity" to declare you don't need RADAR (my mistake, not LIDAR as I originally wrote) anyway, supply chain problem fixed!
by kfarr 5y ago
Ah yes the "flexibility" and "ingenuity" to declare you don't need RADAR (my mistake, not LIDAR as I originally wrote) anyway, supply chain problem fixed!
- pkulak 5y agoBut they've never used lidar...
- credit_guy 5y agoElon Musk was always against Lidar, well before any supply crunch, or Covid for that matter. See for example [1], published in 2019, and called "Elon Musk's war on Lidar" [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/05/06/elon-musks-war-on-lidar-who-is-right-and-why-do-they-think-that/?sh=6a0e80832a3b https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/05/06/elon-m...
- ahahahahah 5y agoAt that point he had spent three years selling cars that he claimed had all of the necessary hardware for FSD. He was also already years later on his promise of coast to coast automation.
- llboston 5y agoDo you know any mass produced car that has built in LIDAR?
- dzlobin 5y agoJust starting the mass-production but Lucid is using radar, cameras, and LIDAR.
- dragontamer 5y agoYou mean RADAR. LIDAR is a completely separate technology. The RADAR issue is that Tesla is playing some "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" bull: https://insideevs.com/news/509515/tesla-removes-radar-details-configurator/ https://insideevs.com/news/509515/tesla-removes-radar-detail...
- panick21 5y agoThe non radar version was verified to successfully handle all cases and actually outperforms the radar and has less false positives. The had been planning on that anyway eventually.