"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."…
"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.