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Like you say, FSD beta is new, so, no. The autopilot software has killed people though.

The sunk cost fallacy is stronger when it's not just R&D but thousands of people who paid 10k$ on the promise that their car had all the hardware required... Cars that shipped without a lidar.

And I believe waymo uses lidar and has, as far as I know, killed nobody. They also take a more cautious approach where bystanders are not turned into beta testers, of course :-)



> The autopilot software has killed people though.

Sorry, what’s your point? You need to prove that the autopilot software has killed more people than if the cars were driven by humans.

> And I believe waymo uses lidar and has, as far as I know, killed nobody.

With a footprint probably orders of magnitude smaller than Tesla. What do you want to bet is the difference in terms of miles driven by Waymo vs. miles driven by Tesla autopilot?




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