<story><title>Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible</title><url>https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-removes-parking-sensors-to-save-money-the-results-are-predictably-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>Seeing this as &amp;quot;pushing technology forward&amp;quot; is a pretty generous interpretation.  It reeks of cost cutting.</text></item><item><author>joenathanone</author><text>I appreciate Telsa&amp;#x27;s ambition to push technology forward but they shouldn&amp;#x27;t experiment with customers in real time like this. You want to replace parking sensors with vision, go right ahead, prove it in the lab first, don&amp;#x27;t remove the parking sensors and just assume that the engineers will figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MPSimmons</author><text>Agreed. I suspect there were parts shortages, and Elon was like, &amp;quot;The best part is no part, take it out of the design and do it with cameras&amp;quot;. Same story with radar.&lt;p&gt;Now both radar and sonar are coming back because it&amp;#x27;s far better to have the sensor data, even if you have to wade through it, than to not have it, particularly in adverse conditions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible</title><url>https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-removes-parking-sensors-to-save-money-the-results-are-predictably-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>Seeing this as &amp;quot;pushing technology forward&amp;quot; is a pretty generous interpretation.  It reeks of cost cutting.</text></item><item><author>joenathanone</author><text>I appreciate Telsa&amp;#x27;s ambition to push technology forward but they shouldn&amp;#x27;t experiment with customers in real time like this. You want to replace parking sensors with vision, go right ahead, prove it in the lab first, don&amp;#x27;t remove the parking sensors and just assume that the engineers will figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moogly</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really see how putting a bunch of Californian developers on the task to write software to solve a problem that $114&amp;#x2F;car (according to an estimate) already solved could be considered cutting costs.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve already spent 6 months on 1 out of 5 features they lost by getting rid of their sensors.</text></comment>