I ordered a MY in April and have been anxiously awaiting my delivery date, but this news has given me significant pause, and now I'm considering cancelling my order. Unless they have years of data to back their claim, you'll never get me to believe that a vision-based system will outperform a system that incorporates radar (especially in bad weather and blinding sun). It seems that Tesla also believes this new system isn't trustworthy since they are capping Autosteer at 75mph, disabling emergency lane departure, and increasing the following distance. I don't want to be their safety testing guinea pig!
My nephew has a PhD in computer vision and he's also seriously concerned about this decision. The technology just isn't there yet, so this clearly seems like a cost-cutting move by Tesla (at the expense of driver and pedestrian safety).
I placed my order on March 24th and I see that Tesla is saying that any cars manufactured after March 27th will not have radar. Since I placed my order before this date, do you think my vehicle will have radar? And if so, will that continue to work, or will they eventually disable the radar with a software "downgrade"?