Really? While Bezos is great, he has never cracked a market which already had a “good competitor”. For eg: Its failure in ‘phones’ & ‘tablets’ (competing with Apple), Failure in Rocket business (competing with Space X), ‘Potential’ failure in Satellite constellation (competing with Starlink).

Bezos is usually…

“biggest issue to moving past L2 semi-autonomy, a proper failover/handoff solution” ...only Journos or professors will think this as issue. Normal people will think that “actual performance” of the FSD, for which you can get many YouTube videos, is much more important.

ya, but I don’t think LIDAR can be easily retrofitted in the existing vehicles.

Its not about the “cost”. Camera sensors are very cheap. However, even the low end cameras can’t be utilized to full potential by neural nets - they parse images in greyscale @ 16 FPS (appx). So having a higher resolution camera will not make any difference.

That is inaccurate. Even the “low power” cameras on Tesla’s (1.2 MP) are not utilized to full potential by the neural net. In fact, no autonomous system uses cameras at full potential — images are parsed at around 16 FPS in greyscale.
On other hand, Tesla’s existing “radar” is insufficient and they are planning an…

Sandy owns a company which employs SME from every domain, and for which they don’t have know-how, they will get outside support.

Umm. no. Ed has been butt-hurt for past 10 + years since he maintained Tesla death watch at TATC. He was called out for his behavior and has been hater since then.

Ya, but any real engineer would love Tesla. Toyota is famous for reliable & boring vehicles, but few of their cars have bleeding edge tech.
In contrast, all Teslas - S, X, 3 Y (Roadster and Cybertruck) have lots of bleeding edge tech. So Tesla faces lot of challenges due to new tech....but it also allows them to have …

Absolutely. Tesla was treated “fairly” in this article which is the only thing a ‘rabid fan’ like me expects.

Maybe you are unaware, but most world govt’s are 100 or 1000 times richer than Musk/Bezos. But have they ever solved any problem impacting the world?

And do you think moving world to “sustainable transport” and “making humans interplanetary” is not a problem of the world? In fact I would rate them much much higher than…

Does it actually made any difference to human species? Gates, while doing amazing work is not impacting world at the level Elon does. Making human interplanetary, transitioning to sustainable transport. Think about these things.

Yes, please short Tesla. It does not make sense because you don’t want it to make sense.

This is how the whole Kickstarter model works. If Musk does not deliver, then he will be sued. But what Jalopnick is doing is evil. When almost all articles relating Tesla are in “they are wrong” theme....then IMO writer itself is biased.

marketed as more than it is —- where? Can you give me Tesla ads/promotional materials supporting your assertions? And where in Tesla’s user manual “need to be vigilant is consistently downplayed”

I don’t’ find any of your assertions to be supported by actual, available facts.

“Most experts, I don’t believe”....that’s fine, but don’t force your belief on others. Considering Tesla is the foremost expert in the field...has most amount of driving data, Musk’s opinion is equally valid.
A goal can be approached via different paths. Maybe both the paths — lidar and lidar free will be feasible,…

Jason, don’t teach “engineering choices” to Musk, who runs the worlds most advanced rocket company. Neither you, not me have domain skills to do it. I have yet to see a positive article about amazing FSD Beta capability Tesla is currently showcasing. This tech is literally the most advanced in human history....and all…

Maybe read Tesla’s website for once....FSD is being sold as a “Future capability” which will be delivered iteratively. Nowhere, in any material it says FSD is currently functional.

“the inflated claims of that system”...again, from which Tesla marketing or user manual are u taking this factoid?

Absolutely.

Ok, which Tesla marketing or promotional video shows hands-off AP shown aka Flaunting. 5 sec clip of Musk appearing once on interview is not flaunting.