> Musk and Karpathy have been dead wrong about LIDAR for years.
Right, because all those companies that use LIDAR are making billions driving people around. Oh, wait, actually they are burning 100 of millions every year.
> I think most hilarious is that both Karpathy and Musk claim the LIDAR systems are too expensive.
That's literally the opposite of what Musk says about Lidar. He LITERALLY said he wouldn't use them if they were free.
> yet stumbling towards autonomy on vision only is
Look up the Marginal Revolution from 1870.
> The entire ...
... The entire paragraph is an exercise in missing the point.
It seems really what you are saying is not that Tesla are charlatan but the whole industry is.