[bananapub]

they're making fun of Tesla, which stopped putting radar (ed: I misremembered, thanks to the commenter below) in their cars during the pandemic when it got expensive and instead of saying "we can't afford it", claimed it's actually better to not have lidar and just rely on cameras

[AlotOfReading]

Tesla has never had LIDAR on production cars, only mapping/ground truth and test vehicles. It was radar that disappeared during the pandemic.