Andrej Karpathy
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It's like a little bit of a wrong question because basically you would think that these sensors are an asset to you.
Yeah.
But if you fully consider the entire product in its entirety-
these sensors are actually potentially a liability because these sensors aren't free.
They don't just appear on your car.
Suddenly you have an entire supply chain.
You have people procuring it.
There can be problems with them.
They may need replacement.
They are part of the manufacturing process.
They can hold back the line in production.
You need to source them.
You need to maintain them.
You have to have teams that write the firmware, all of it.
And then you also have to incorporate and fuse them into the system in some way.
And so it actually bloats a lot of it.
And I think Elon is really good at simplify, simplify.
Best part is no part.
And he always tries to throw away things that are not essential because he understands the entropy in organizations and in approach.
And I think in this case...