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r17n 13 hours ago

So there's a video of him addressing this - he doesn't hate the tech. He mentions that it's wildly expensive for cars. But, they use it heavily for SpaceX

threeseed 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The issue isn't that it's wildly expensive for cars. But rather for Tesla.

Because the company has promised that existing Tesla owners would be able to use FSD.

Having to retrofit them to add LiDAR sensors would be cost-prohibitive.

stormfather 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Also he wants to reuse the foundational machine vision tech in Optimus bot, which probably won't have lidar.

threeseed 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Based on presentations we've seen what sets Tesla apart are its datasets not the core technology.

And those don't translate across to the Optimus bot.

sroussey 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Optimus should probably have LiDAR more than a car…