if it does, then elon really won the bet of no lidar

All he had to do was remove the LIDAR and wait 15-20 years for the tech to catch up. I'm sure Tesla owners don't mind waiting. They're used to it by now.

there's a huge difference between "feature that mostly works and is kinda neat" and "5000 pound robot relies on this to work all the time or people will probably get hurt at minimum" in how much you should trust a feature.

Doesn't really matter if an imgTo3d script gets a face's depth map inverted, kinda problematic if your car doesn't think there's something where there is.

I wasn't aware there was a competition or a bet.