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Hell, IIHS even has tests for things like this as does Euro NCAP.
These mad lads did human trials:
Also cars that take safety seriously rely on a combination of cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors for things like pedestrian, bike, and obstacle detection.
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True. Such false image, that needs to be kept up with constant effort is what pretty much defines narcissism.
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Interesting qualifier: physically hurt anyone.
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And his products have physically hurt people. Both employees and customers have been physically harmed by Tesla.
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Also, exactly which of his companies makes the great products that people love? Is it the exploding rockets one, the incendiary cars one, or the hate speech website?
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You know what, when watching 80s comedies, I’m beginning to root for the jocks. And I’m definitely a nerd myself.
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Nah, they’re assholes too. The only winning strategy is solidarity across social groups! Didn’t we learn that from the Breakfast club?
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I have a suspicion that it may be even worse than that; it’s entirely possible he’s trying to breed a new body to occupy once this one becomes old and decrepit, hence Neuralink.
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Ooof, walking in front of the car, even when they’re setting up a situation where there’s insufficient stopping distance (and the car also has to swerve) - that takes some nerves, even if they fully believe in their technology.
Yeah, if you’re not going to have a human brain in control, you really need all the tricks (and therefore sensors) that you can bring to bear. Musk going with cameras-only really showed how utterly and completely unserious he is - as an self-anointed engineer, as the CEO of Tesla, as a thinker, period - and also how unserious Tesla is about safety and more generally the self-driving program.
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Lidar is a hardware solution so costs money to put in cars and has to be ready for them. Visual recognition is a software solution so it’s free to distribute and can be shipped whenever, assuming your programmers can figure it out – and you can always promise investors you’ve been overworking them so it’s just a couple years away. Any decent capitalist would go with the vaporware over something they have to actually produce. 
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I assumed dropping all the hardware was just a stupid cost-cutting measure, but being able to turn the promise of the self-driving car into vaporware as a result isn’t something that I had considered. It really is perfectly in line with Musk’s way of operating. Now I vaguely recollect that he was actually touting the camera-only as a benefit of those cars - that the cars were hardware ready (or something to that effect) and were only awaiting the magic software to make full self-driving work “in the future”…
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Also relevant:
There’s a big demand for these kinds of bumper stickers right now:
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