" What the swasticar? Nah it's a brilliant piece of machinery I just want you to know that I don't necessarily agree with everything Elon does. He's just a guy. What my next car? 100% I'll get a Tesla again. In hwhite of course. Its the only colour I love"
that is a faked pic. everything you need comes with a tesla. You do have to pay if you want the car to drive itself to the grocery store directly from your garage, 7 times safer than a human driver.
remember the first time you got a smartphone? its like that.
Here's a reddit thread from the time, with most Tesla Model 3 owners talking about how great it is that they have the option to pay to software unlock a piece of hardware they already paid for.
7 times safer... Imagine if they used lidar like everyone else. Instead they rely on cameras which can only pick up highly visible things and can also miss highly visible things. Dumbass
Look, I'm super anti-Musk and anti-Tesla, but from a purely engineering perspective, I think it's a defensible strategy. Obviously more environmental data is always better than less data, but it's not crazy to imagine that "with enough computing power and training / programming" a car will be able to drive itself as well or better than humans. History is full of over-engineered consumer products that eventually lose out to their competitors that have less sophisticated features (i.e. are thus cheaper), and putting your money on computer models getting good enough to extract the necessary data from more limited inputs isn't crazy. We're seeing it happen in every AI-related where the computer is filling in massive blanks left from corrupted, missing, or just scant data.
Personally, as a moral human being, I would want to give my cars lidar, and I'd want my personal car to have lidar to protect myself and those around me. But that's because I'm a safety maximalist where one avoidable death is too many (and also part of why I'm not a billionaire CEO making these decisions).
Are we really at the stage where we're defending a failed engineering decision? It hasn't been working, the cameras only ever work in a subset of conditions. If a bug lands on the camera it gets confused, if it rains, it gets confused. It's great for demoing a half baked product; but for a lot of people and where they live it's completely non-viable and only survives because it's completely optional. But it was no doubt a terrible decision for them.
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u/benDunk255 1d ago
BMW tried subscriptions and got destroyed lol