[kingsuper20]

>How was it possible to know in advance what hardware will be required?

I suspect that most of the hardware is the ability of a computer to drive the car. Steering/throttle/braking inputs for example.

It could be that what you mean by 'hardware' is some combination of intelligence and sensor system.

[paulcole]

Regardless of what I might mean by “hardware”, is there any way Tesla should be stating as fact that the cars coming off the line in 2019 (when I took that quote from) need no additional hardware to accomplish something that is years (if not decades) away from becoming reality?