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by lagadu 1112 days ago
I'm not putting into question the fact that having a radar is significantly superior to vision only, that's obvious.

I'm saying that, as we see, HW4 and radar are two distinct hardware configurations: saying that there will be a large sore spot because HW4 cars have radar is objectively false as not all of them do.

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I’m super confused… you’re agreeing that having a radar is superior but you’re disagreeing that it’s going to be a sore spot? How is that possible. Regardless of how you name the configurations (HW4, HW4.5 whatever, the naming is irrelevant) the point is that there will be multiple configurations of sensing suites, some of which will be objectively better than others. That’s the sore spot.

The fact that HW4 and radar are separate configurations by name is not important. HW3 is also included in the mix (you can buy FSD on it) and it has totally different camera placement. So radar aside there’s still a difference in the sensor suite.

People who paid $10k and were promised “FSD” and future hardware upgrades have every right to be pissed off about this.