> I think Karpathy at Tesla has basically unlimited funding, Tesla's R&D spending in their earnings report was ~1.5 billion. That's a small number for unlimite

> I think Karpathy at Tesla has basically unlimited funding, Tesla's R&D spending in their earnings report was ~1.5 billion. That's a small number for unlimited. To contrast, their competitor at GM, with a significantly smaller market cap, is spending 6.2 billion. > They've already deployed said hardware in the wild, and they're probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving Can you cite a source for this? Tesla is "probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving" is an absurd claim. Waymo publicly states they're at level 4 autonomy (https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1347286935535017986 https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1347286935535017986). Tesla states they're at level 2 autonomy (https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-level-2-sae/ https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-...).