He also mentioned his buddy’s company earlier in the Disney ride mapping.

It’s simple product placement. It’s in movies all the time. Lays and Pepsi Co pay entertainment companies to place their products in sitcoms and movies everyday. Luminar probably paid Rober to showcase the superiority of Lidar over cameras. Rober happened to use his old Telsa. He never said Telsa sucked, but that there is better detecting products out there. He could have gone further and said Telsa’s newer stuff is way better than the cameras he showcased in his older model.

Everyone is crying about product placement on a entertainment channel.