Back in like 2016, a huge part of the grift was that Tesla was a tech company and their system would get smarter forever as it got more data.

Using an expensive sensor that can just detect objects instead of relying on computer vision and machine learning is kinda like an admission of failure.

I can’t find what it goes to, but it looks like Baidu and the US company Zoox use them in their robotaxis.

Edit: Lixiang models L9, L8, and L7 use that sensor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/

The tesla did not consistently detect that the thing infront of it was a truck, so it didn’t brake. Also, this describes a lot of similar cases.

I remember a youtuber doing similar tests, where they’d try to run over a fake pedestrian crossing or standing in the road at low speed, and then high speed. It would often stop at low speed, but very rarely stopped or swerved at high speed.

to be clear, the secret service cannot prohibit the president from doing anything they really want to do

Was Trump lying when he said the SS wouldn’t take him back to the capital on Jan 6?

I could definitely see him lying about that so he doesn’t look like he abandoned his supporters during the coup, but I could also see the driver being like “I can’t endanger you, mr president” and ignoring his requests.

It was Elon, he was very vocal about how Lidar was an expensive crutch and how machine learning would get so much better than human vision back around 2016ish.

10 - 30 grand

Decent LIDAR sensors have gotten a lot cheaper in the last 5 years or so, here’s one that is used in commercial self-driving taxis: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/X01-36020021-Nev-Auto-Parts-for_1601252480285.html

So they had an issue with the car slamming on the brakes at unexpected times, caused by misidentifying cracks in the road or glare or weird lighting or w/e. The solution was to make the cameras ignore anything they can’t recognize at high speeds. This resulted in Teslas plowing into the back of firetrucks.

As the article mentioned, other self-driving cars solved that with lidar, which elon himself is against because he says AI will just get so good and 2d cameras are cheaper.