I was responding in thought of what I keep hearing from many other members regarding Vision, esp w/ dumping radar.
I keep hearing that if it's thick fog, heavy rain, whatever then a person shouldn't be driving. This agreement falls flat because depending on the circumstances it's much safe to continue onward to a safer location to avoid an even high risk. IE stopping on a blind corner on a narrow mountain pass just because heavy rain just started. It's safer to get around the corner, ideally to a turnout, even at 1 mph.
I'm not expecting the car to do it for me, at this point, or even at level 4. That should be a decision I make, and not the car.
But the argument people keep making is that if people can drive with vision alone, then so should the car. In circumstances where vision is less than ideal it's better to have something to fall back-on like Radar, LiDAR, whatever either as a comingled system like Tesla was doing before, OR just as a second tier system to pickup the slack to help get out of a risky situation where Vision is not enough, but you have "really" no choice but to go forward. Even if that means it's for use by the driver and not FSD.
An example is the IR camera's on Audi, Mercedes, and others. When driving in areas with no moonlight, and no streetlights it shows animals, people, and anything else with certain heat highlighted on the display. In those conditions most people are still going to drive if they say live out in the county. But the IR (or Radar or LiDAR, provides better than "human" vision to aid in driving, this "could" also potentially be leveraged by FSD.
Anyway... just by perspective, not arguing. Tesla is going to do what they want and I'm hear for the ride. If Audi, Mercedes, or whoever has something different that I prefer down the road I can always swap over, or just add another car to the garage.
Cheers everyone.