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All other successful self driving cars use LiDAR.

• daghamm 2y ago
  Removing lidar was 100% a cost saving that was ordered by Elon. I am sure there are internal investigations showing all kind of problems when lidar is removed, and Elon choose to ignore them all to save a few bucks. Look at what he did at twitter. As soon as he was put in charge he removed all safety measures to save money and now twitter is full of bots and scammers. Why do people assume he runs Tesla any differently??
• k_bx 2y ago
  By successful you mean none? No company is "successful", not even Tesla.
  • tsimionescu 2y ago
    Tesla is the least successful of all these companies. Waymo is successfully running a robotaxi business in a few select locations. Mercedes is successfully offering a full self driving solution in certain very limited but very well-defined parameters. Tesla is selling a driver assisted system that can't reliably turn the car or park it without manual intervention a decent percent of the time.
  • Zigurd 2y ago
    Waymo announced a $5B investment to expand service. They also announced a new sensor suite. The new vehicle will have no steering wheel. The vehicle and sensor hardware are real and being demo'ed. They charge real money and have 10,000+ paying customers per week. That's small compared to Uber, but the expansion signals that Waymo can scale up without hiring a lot more vehicle monitoring support people.