Latest comedic fantasy from Tesla Q2 2025 earnings call

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@syke6

this was a management failure, not an engineering problem. I doubt the engineers thought a single point of failure was a good idea.

I have similar thoughts (as do many others) about decisions at Tesla.

Regarding the camera-only decision I wrote below in another thread. This has “bad management idea” written all over it (although I could be wrong).

By the way, AVs need redundancy in hardware (compute and sensors) - hmmmm?

@mostlylong

did Tesla arrive at the camera-only decision because the data suggested it as the best path versus other sensor configurations, or was there a push from leadership, that was much less informed by data, that resulted in the camera-only approach?

If the answer is the latter, that could be a serious risk for Tesla’s AV plans.

Probably most people on this board have experienced executive decisions that turned out to be poorly informed and then saw the consequences of those decisions.