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I still can’t get over how deceptive the marketing was on the Autopilot page on Tesla.com

>Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars

>All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

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

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>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.

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?

What would they need the better hardware for?

If they haven't achieved full self driving, how could they know, and hence claim, to have the necessary hardware?

Better sensors, which has already been one of the reasons for some of Tesla's self-driving crashes.

I don’t know, but Tesla took that text off their Autopilot page in late 2019, so maybe something changed…

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