[theshrike79]

In this case the dude giving the order is the richest man in the world, hopped up on ketamine and a habit of just YOLOing stuff.

A single engineer telling him that LIDAR and radar is superior to camera-based systems isn't doing anything except getting said engineer fired.

[cogman10]

It's clearly not, but cameras are cheap and Tesla is excellent at cost optimizing their cars. Elon was pretty good at film flaming that somehow imprecise cameras were actually somehow superior.

There's a reason Waymo is doing actual level 4/5 driving while Tesla remains at 2.5.