A terrible design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again biting Tesla in the behind. As The Guardian reports, the Robotaxi rollout has been a massive bust due, in part, to Musk's long-ago bet against light detection and ranging (lidar) software, which allows cars to "sense" their surroundings far more sensitively than the cabin cameras that Tesla uses on its electric vehicles. Waymo, Google's driverless cab service, uses a mixed array of lidars, cabin cameras, sensors, and radar to autonomously navigate the world around them — as a many, many videos show, even those technologies […]