That doesn't address the main question of @lehmanbt which is given the order date of 4/26, will he get a vision-only car. The answer to that is no (unless he happened to get an inventory car). The production date is what matters, not the order date.
I went back and reread your post above in light of what I learned from GearChurncher just now and now I understand your point. Originally I thought you were saying merely that the cars with and without radar were running the same FW. I did not realize that someone with elevated access privileges was actually able to read the HW descriptions in this FW. If that is the case I agree with you it is fact.
Note, this is not quite correct. People have popped open the frunk button to check the harness connectors, however people have not taken off the bumper cover (which is much more involved) to verify if there were any changes to the sensors.
You are looking for Green. He posts all sorts of stuff.
This is true, but from what we are hearing above it sounds like some people with elevated access to the SW/FW have actually been able to look at lists of the HW component definitions and they see nothing to indicate use of new sensors. If they added a new physical sensor on the non-radar cars the HW description for it would have to be present in the SW/FW release. If someone is able to read these files they can see everything that is installed or even capable of being installed for a given car.
Sure that may all be true, but if someone actually popped open the bumper cover (and similarly the front unit, the b-pillar cameras, fender cameras, rear camera, the ultrasonic sensors, etc), that's a whole other level of evidence (although not necessary for this discussion). This had been done in the past where people actually took out the radar unit and took pictures during the switch to Continental.
From the whole heated steering wheel discussion, the parts catalog may not necessarily be a reliable source in terms of the latest parts (sometimes it may lag behind).
Given latest developments that's pretty much not happening. They doubled down too much on the removal of radar and adding it back would be an even bigger "loss of face" than adding lidar.
@lehmanbt, I typed that on my phone and looking back, it is a bit confusing how I worded that. To clarify: what I mean above is you won't get a car with radar, given any car manufactured after 4/27 will not have radar. The manufacturing date is what matters, not the order date.
Mine works totally fine, on .18.2 and .18.3
