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Agreed. Actually pushing technology forward would involve replacing parking sensors with two additional cameras to cover the blind-spot, then using vision to ex
by Someone1234 4y ago
Agreed. Actually pushing technology forward would involve replacing parking sensors with two additional cameras to cover the blind-spot, then using vision to exceed what parking sensors could do.
It isn't simply to remove parking sensors, have areas of the vehicle with blind spots, then hack the problem by trying to "guess" what in happening in those locations.
It has been suggested this removal saved Tesla less than $150/car. That's crazy for a $40K+ vehicle. There's nothing to defend here, it makes their vehicles objectively worse.
- saurik 4y agoFWIW, while I am in the camp if people who think this was a dumb move and who in fact cancelled my buying a Tesla over it at the last possible moment I could still walk away from the car, I had thought Tesla wasn't just running into cost issues: they also were also quickly reacting to the semiconductor shortage and even had tons of cars sitting around missing just a few parts as they frantically tried to ship, and so maybe dropping this part wasn't as much "cutting costs" as "cutting dependencies".
- inferiorhuman 4y agoIt has been suggested this removal saved Tesla less than $150/car. Far be it for me to defend lord elno, but $150 is a pretty hefty amount in automotive circles. Car manufacturers (especially the Big 3) do all sorts of shit to save literal pennies on unit cost. The idea is that their cars are sold in such high volume they're saving a ton of money. Of course it's myopic since that doesn't account for customers' willingness to pay a bit more here and there for a higher quality product.