A long time ago Elon promised that full self-driving would be coming to existing cars that had their self-driving package installed which was cameras only. Elon is probably sticking with cameras only to avoid a lawsuit.
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nemith@programming.dev 22 hours agoI have a theory on this. They use a lot of ML for FSD and Ap. That a radical redesign would change the model enough that they would have to retrain from scratch. So they keep the facelifts extremely minor .
Just a theory.
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
They stuck the model Y’s new added front camera right under the “grille” shape (where the black trim ends and body colored panels begin), so the rest of it being so bland doesn’t have an excuse. The rest of it’s front cameras are under the front glass, they could at least make an interesting fascia, even if they had to keep the dimensions roughly the same
vinniep@beehaw.org 58 minutes ago
Tesla’s used to have LiDAR - they turned them off in software and stopped adding them to newer models.