Tesla FSD

Tesla's Full Self Drive (FSD) or Robotaxi is all camera based. No radars, no lidars.

It'll hit the wall of unacceptability and never launch, or it'll launch with cameras only and kill people, or it'll go in a re-design phase with added radars.

Any way you cut it, Elon Musk's pronouncements about Tesla robotaxis are mostly fake.

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