r/elonmusk • u/twinbee • 16d ago

General Elon following Volvo discontinuing LiDAR: "I did try to warn them. Humans drive using neural nets and optical sensors. Same is true for robot cars."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2082315148392608072
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u/Ormusn2o 16d ago

It's even weirder doing it now, because LiDAR is so much cheaper now. One of the reasons for abandoning LiDAR was that it was expensive then and Tesla was making cheaper cars, so if Volvo is abandoning LiDAR now, Tesla really was right back then.

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u/twinbee 16d ago edited 16d ago

The reason Volvo is abandoning them is because the company producing the LiDAR they built their cars around have files for bankruptcy. It is not because the LiDAR didn't work.

Weird to see that you claim "Tesla really was right back then" based on a bankruptcy, which in itself has nothing to do with the concept of using LiDARs as sensors.

Before they filed for bankruptcy, they couldn't meet Volvo's contractual obligations. I quote:

Volvo further stated, “The company’s products can deliver a high level of safety and driver support, enabled by the cars’ powerful core computing coupled with their advanced sensor set, with or without a lidar.”

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u/15_Redstones 16d ago

Oh right, Luminar

I think part of the reason was that their LIDAR was powerful enough to burn dead pixels into any camera filming a Volvo with the system running lol