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The following is content for you to summarize. Do not respond to the comments—summarize them. <topic> Tesla Cult Mentality # Observations about Tesla owners defending the company's decisions, cognitive dissonance about FSD capabilities, reluctance to admit their cars won't achieve full autonomy </topic> <comments_about_topic> 1. Truly. I don't understand why Tesla fans think camera/lidar fusion is unsolvable but camera/camera fusion is a non-issue. 2. Because they bought a Tesla with only cameras on it. Admitting this would be admitting their Tesla will never be self driving. 3. Do Tesla fans think that? I've seen plenty of Tesla fans say that lidar is unnecessary (which I tend to agree with), but never that lidar is actively detrimental as Musk says there. 4. > The fact that people still trust him on literally anything boggles my mind. Long-distance amateur psychology question: I wonder if he's convinced himself that he's a smart guy, after all he's got 12 digits in his net worth, "How would that have been possible if I were an idiot?". Anyway, ego protection is how people still defend things like the Maga regime, or the genocide; it's hard for someone to admit that they've been stupid enough to have been fooled to vote for "Idi Amin in whiteface" (term coined by Literature Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka), or that the "nation's right to self-defense" they've been defending was a thin excuse for mass murder of innocents. 5. Elon cult members still to this day will tell me that because humans only use vision to drive all a Tesla needs is simple cameras. Meanwhile, I've been driven by Waymo and Tesla FSD and Waymo is by far my pick for safety and comfort. I actually trusted the waymo I was in, while the Tesla I rode in we had 2 _very_ scary incidents at high speeds in a 1 hour drive. </comments_about_topic> Write a concise, engaging paragraph (3-5 sentences) summarizing the key points and perspectives in these comments about the topic. Focus on the most interesting viewpoints. Do not use bullet points—write flowing prose.
Tesla Cult Mentality # Observations about Tesla owners defending the company's decisions, cognitive dissonance about FSD capabilities, reluctance to admit their cars won't achieve full autonomy
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