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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by anotherman554 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:24PM (#24909621)
"Elon Musk even said he wouldn't use Lidar if it was free."

If your mental model of how the world works is "Elon Musk always tells the truth" then this is compelling evidence, but if you have a different mental model I don't know why you would take it seriously.

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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by nickik on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:06PM (#24910679)
Nothing prevented him from telling the truth, its a pure unrealistic hypotetical that he could have answered as he wanted.

The important point is that he is CEO and its well within his power to develop his own lidar system, or sign a contract for lidar. Or to do research on the topic. Yet he has not done that or shown any interest in that.

At some point you have to ask yourself, is somebody engadging in 4D chess over 10 years or is it simply his opinion.

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