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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026

Musk has spent a decade saying lidar is "a crutch," while relying on a much bigger "crutch" in the form of human supervision, so now his engineers have to wallow around in the toxic fallout of their boss's cognitive meltdown here's a thread covering how that's going:

Adam Cook@motorcityadam.com

In response to this Electrek story, apparently, one of Tesla's "Senior Autopilot Engineers" (Yun-Ta Tsai) chimed in last weekend with some truly God-tier stupid takes defending Tesla's designs. I grabbed some screenshots. First of all, sensor fusion is a thing that significantly boosts redundancy.

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Oscar Zeta Gundam @lmfsilva.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I actually laughed when I saw this:

Adam Cook@motorcityadam.com

Given the Waymo display above, this is about the most disingenuous thing that could have been presented in defense of Tesla's approach, but here it is... A low-resolution, single-color, two-dimensional, static image of some points on a plot. Incredible.

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𝕄𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕪 | ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 🌹 @mistermercury.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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It’s very funny that Tesla is still struggling with this issue, while to my knowledge most other self-driving projects mostly solved the sensor issue years ago

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Mathieu Stevens @mrmathieustevens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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The supervision isn't only an engineering crutch. It's where the liability sits. Every version of the terms has said the person in the seat remains responsible for the vehicle. Remove the human and that obligation has to land somewhere, and nothing shipped so far says where.

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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Elon musk has spent a decade selling a lie at the price point people will buy rather than figuring out how to produce the technology that is required to deliver his promise at cost and scale that works.

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Opinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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"Looking at something with 2 eyes doesn't add redundancy as they create a composite image, it just increases the surface area for confusion" - This Tesla Engineer, Evidently

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