> vision only is better since Lidar pollutes the sensor fusion data.

Did he never experienced optical illusions? I don't get it.

Guess his boyish looks and his videos educating outsiders and students about AI contributed..

Elon makes it so easy to hate him as much as to admire. No comparison.

With a cursory glance at Tesla's hardware the rest of the self driving car industry quickly surmised that it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy, and that's before sensor modalities entered the equation. Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look.