How much has this one idiot, Elon Musk (and his enablers like Kaparthy) done to slow down / stifle the self driving car industry? I claim it's a lot. We are easily 3 years behind where we should be with self-driving vehicles due his refusual to believe that "Sensor Fusion" works or even is a real field of study with lots of smart people who work on it.
He is hell bent on taking the things that make cars objectively safer, more aware, and awesome, like radar-based sensors, parking sensors, and heads-up-displays and not only refusing to put them in his cars (or taking them out), but also disparages them and their users on twitter.
I am just capital S shocked that this is the behavior of the CEO of a company who is trying to have the aesthetics of being technologically advanced and superior and all that. The sad truth is that my 2017 lexus has a far superior set of sensors on it than a 2023 Tesla. If Tesla didn't have such insanely good powertrains and batteries, no one would buy these tin-cans shitboxes, and they ARE garbage in terms of initial quality/fit-and-finish.
He is hell bent on taking the things that make cars objectively safer, more aware, and awesome, like radar-based sensors, parking sensors, and heads-up-displays and not only refusing to put them in his cars (or taking them out), but also disparages them and their users on twitter.
I am just capital S shocked that this is the behavior of the CEO of a company who is trying to have the aesthetics of being technologically advanced and superior and all that. The sad truth is that my 2017 lexus has a far superior set of sensors on it than a 2023 Tesla. If Tesla didn't have such insanely good powertrains and batteries, no one would buy these tin-cans shitboxes, and they ARE garbage in terms of initial quality/fit-and-finish.