Not driving into things by itself is very easy. The hard bit is getting places without driving into things.
Elon:
*leans over shoulder of Tesla engineer, presses Ctrl+N in a code editor and writes this code into the new file*
There you have it. I just wrote the most safety-critical piece of code for Full Self Driving. Now just put it in the right spot in the codebase and sort out the dependencies while I go collect my well-deserved bonus. Don’t bother me with the low-level stuff like computer vision but if you find some new trolley problems the car might need to solve, you know where to find me. And don’t you dare touch this code. It’s perfect, first try. If all of you write code like I do, y’all be drivin’ home in robotaxis by December. I swear, it’s not that hard!
Yeah, and nowhere in my code it uses that damn expensive radar. I think we can just do cameras. If I can safely drive by sight only, so can that thing. See, unengineering! Saves so much cost! I think I can have another billion in bonuses just for this.
Considering that humans pretty much learn this stuff all by themselves before the age of five… why do they want self-driving cars again?
Oh right… they will waste billions to blame the users of their insanely dangerous and lethal (but extremely profitable) privatized transport model.
The car now refuses to shift out of Park.