Dead Bugs Are Getting in the Way of Fully Autonomous Self-Driving Cars

Elon Musk vs. the Mayfly

Sam Abuelsamid
Debugger
Published in
7 min readOct 19, 2020

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On October 19, 2016, Elon Musk kicked off the lie about Tesla Full Self-Driving capabilities: “The basic news is that all Tesla vehicles exiting the factory have the hardware necessary for Level 5 autonomy. So that in terms of the cameras and compute power, it’s every car we make. So, on the order of…

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Sam Abuelsamid
Debugger

Sam is a principal analyst leading Guidehouse Insights’ e-Mobility Research Service covering automated driving, electrification and mobility services