[r17n]

So there's a video of him addressing this - he doesn't hate the tech. He mentions that it's wildly expensive for cars. But, they use it heavily for SpaceX

[threeseed]

The issue isn't that it's wildly expensive for cars. But rather for Tesla.

Because the company has promised that existing Tesla owners would be able to use FSD.

Having to retrofit them to add LiDAR sensors would be cost-prohibitive.

[stormfather]

Also he wants to reuse the foundational machine vision tech in Optimus bot, which probably won't have lidar.