It is entirely understandable that Tesla would wing it without lidar. Once one gets over the assumption that their priority is creating a level 5 system. What

It is entirely understandable that Tesla would wing it without lidar. Once one gets over the assumption that their priority is creating a level 5 system. What Tesla cares about is selling expensive vaporware. If this vaporware depended on an expensive prop, this would cut into cash flow they want to spend on software dev. They've repeatedly said "we can do it without lidar". What they meant is "we cannot afford lidar in our situation." It doesn't look like it's going to work, but it also doesn't look like adding lidar solves the basic issues. So in the end at least they didn't con people into buying useless lidar. Just useless vaporware.