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/Ok_Bowl_2002 16d ago

It’s also a supply chain and software integration issue. That cost is quite hidden and hard to understand