> It’s widely understood that the hardest part of building AI is how it deals with situations that happen uncommonly, i.e. edge cases. In fact, the better your

> It’s widely understood that the hardest part of building AI is how it deals with situations that happen uncommonly, i.e. edge cases. In fact, the better your model, the harder it is to find robust data sets of novel edge cases. I have no idea whether Tesla will or won’t succeed. But they do have one major advantage over just about every other AV company out there, which addresses the point above. That is, their huge network of camera-equipped cars (a million and counting) provides probably the deepest, richest AV learning dataset on the planet, and probably by orders of magnitude. If accessing the dataset and thus novel edge cases is one of the major challenges in AV development, Tesla is very well placed.