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by lgrebe 1207 days ago
Has he though? If you read the headlines defiantly. If you read the follow up reports, no not so much.

Maybe I’m missing something though. Would you mind expanding what exactly you had in mind when writing this?

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For one Full Self Driving is shaping out to be one massive bit of vaporware after being just around the corner for about eight plus years now. For the task of actual autonomous navigation Musk's gamble on going camera only looks like it's not going to pan out any time soon, the only groups getting close have LIDAR plastered all over their vehicles. That was something people at the time were saying too so it's not just the benefit of hindsight letting us say that. There were loads of people at the time saying camera-only was not a functional path to early Autopilot.