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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Elon ripped out the LiDAR, I don’t have any faith at all in Tesla’s FSD.

[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Elon ripped out the LiDAR

No he didn't...He never even installed it in the first place.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

I had to look this up, but you’re mostly right. They never really did use LiDAR. They did use other types of radar, which were removed or disabled. In any case, they (Elon) asserted that neither radar nor LiDAR was really necessary.

However, that was mostly a couple years ago. In the past month or two they actually have begun buying up tons of LiDAR.

Also, they were sued over FSD in court and their lawyers are now arguing that customers should’ve known that cars without LiDAR are not capable of reliable FSD.

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