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It didn't prohibit Mercedes:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a39966189/2022-mercedes...

https://electrek.co/2022/07/22/mercedes-drive-pilot-review/

Well yeah, if you double the price of the car you can afford to slap lidar on it. You'll sell fewer cars, however

So what's the Model S's and Model X's excuse? They've got the Mercedes EQS price tag but not the equipment.

Tesla want to offer FSD on their whole lineup, not just in their high end models

Ah, I understand. So the Model S and Model X are rip offs.

Better off with the Mercedes EQS. Or the Lucid Air for that matter:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/02/lucids-lidar-based-dreamdr...

Not at night

> you get more data with multiple cameras than with one single lidar

Until you're at night in the snow/dirt.

Yeah, lidar famously deals well with inclement weather and low visibility conditions. Those infrared lasers just punch right through the fog and snowflakes.

Lmao.

Ah you decided to be smart and sarcastic, and inadvertently showed just how limited the tech in these "autonomous" cars is.

And that you can't just handwave these problems away.