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FSD is a software feature, planned for support on existing hardware. Over-the-air hardware updates are not so easy.
Those were claims already dismissed:
"Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners" - https://electrek.co/2025/04/14/tesla-tsla-replace-computer-4...
It’s literally called the FSD computer and the software is called “supervised”. So if anything they’re directly claiming it’s a hardware accomplishment while the software is lesser
If you think FSD is solely limited by LIDAR I have some news to you - Waymo does most of its driving on cameras.
Their production stack is explicitly multi-sensor, and LiDAR is a primary source for metric 3D geometry plus localization and cameras are mainly for semantics. Waymo documents the Waymo Driver as LiDAR plus cameras plus radar.
> cameras are mainly for semantics
Which is the most important part...
Citation needed for that.
Waymo uses both LIDAR and RADAR to collect precise data on distance and speed. If it's foggy (commonly the case in SF) those two let the service continue with no interruptions.
A Tesla in those conditions would hopefully refuse to drive itself, but for some reason I think it would just drive badly and pretend that it was doing something safe.