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> Tesla's choice to abandon lidar will be one of the biggest oof in business history.

Tesla's design team prioritized form over function. Lidars definitely look ugly; they didn't want them on their cars, so as a consequence, they shoot themselves on the foot.

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When Tesla engineers/Elon talk about it it's usually pitched as a safety thing, by standardizing on one sensor they reduce "sensor contention". Famously Karpathy once described radar as a source of noise that held their vision sensors back.

I don't know who will end up being right in the long term, however I don't think this was a form choice, I think they believe a pure camera system will be more functional.

Funny.

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