Musk would look foolish if he backs down on No Lidar. But, buying PONY allows him to say,"We proved vision-only FSD works. But customers wanted robotaxi today,

Musk would look foolish if he backs down on No Lidar. But, buying PONY allows him to say,"We proved vision-only FSD works. But customers wanted robotaxi today, not tomorrow. So I added Pony’s lidar solution — now you have both.” And this allows him a genuine L4 robotaxi solution that works today ... without "safety operators" in the driver seat.