"While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software is ready for the EV maker’s competing robotaxi service.

Just this week, a Tesla driver plowed through a deer without even a hint of slowing down with the $8,000 add-on feature turned on, and another smashed into someone else’s car when its owner employed its Summon feature."…

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      21 days ago

      LIDAR isn’t even that expensive.

      Even my cheap chinese vacuum cleaner has it.

      I bet it’s got ‘vacuum-grade’ granularity, and not ‘2 tons at 50mph approaching some trick-or-treaters’ kind of granularity required.