Comment by philistine 3 days ago
> The real Tesla engineers must be in all kinds of frustrations
That's a very Hacker News point of view, that *of course* engineers have the correct opinion and attitude and are merely suffering under the boots of the real incompetent and nefarious.
Engineers at Tesla are wholly complicit.
It's clearly not, but cameras are cheap and Tesla is excellent at cost optimizing their cars. Elon was pretty good at film flaming that somehow imprecise cameras were actually somehow superior.
There's a reason Waymo is doing actual level 4/5 driving while Tesla remains at 2.5.
They 100% make excuses for the guy and buy his bullshit. Nothing screams cognitive dissonance like believing that Elon had no idea that his Nazi salute would look like a Nazi salute!
In this case the dude giving the order is the richest man in the world, hopped up on ketamine and a habit of just YOLOing stuff.
A single engineer telling him that LIDAR and radar is superior to camera-based systems isn't doing anything except getting said engineer fired.