Elon's bet was one LIDAR against a bunch of cameras. A few hundred dollars is still way too much when you can get the cameras for a few tens.
A two to four ton vehicle that can accelerate like a Ferrari and go over 100 mph, fully self-driving, and 'a few hundred dollars is way too much'.
Disagree. Even as they are dialing back the claims, which may or may not affect how people use the vehicles. These things respond too quickly for flaky senses based on human sensoriums.