None of what you said has anything to do with my point that the pre-mapping and then LIDAR-localization approach taken by Google is the only approach shown to w

None of what you said has anything to do with my point that the pre-mapping and then LIDAR-localization approach taken by Google is the only approach shown to work. You're making a point about end-to-end trained ML systems; if anything, that's an indictment of Tesla's approach, not Google's more traditional sensor-based-approach.