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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by judge2020 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:30PM (#24909006)
From the earnings call last week:

> Hey, Elon, a question on LIDAR. If LIDAR were totally free, would you want to use it in your cars near term? Would that tech significantly help Tesla on the training of your neural network for FSD?

> I mean totally free, well, I think probably — I think even if it was free, we wouldn't put it on.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2020/10/22/te...

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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by colinmhayes on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:50PM (#24910530)
Do you believe him though? I absolutely do not. He just has to say that otherwise people will be talking about how their system is inferior.
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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:29PM (#24911506)
My guess is that there is so much technical debt that adding LIDAR is a tough choice for TESLA. They would need to throw out all the visual only data they have to-date and start over.
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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by Gravityloss on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:27AM (#24917177)
They might have an imaging radar coming up. https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1319363515610812416
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