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[–] vcmj 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I remember hearing a while back that Musk made an executive decision at Tesla to not use LIDAR. I thought: "That's a stupid decision. At least invest in making it better if you think its not sufficient" and I had a quite negative view of his engineering abilities ever since. Seeing as a Tesla can be fooled by a projector these days, I'm willing to die on that hill. I will admit that he is an exceptional businessman, most people would piss away a fortune if given one, but an engineer he is not, not by a loooooooong way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He is now pissing away a fortune with twitter.

[–] vcmj 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True that, he did good on that front for a while though. He got too confident

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