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> what secret sauce have they got that no one else has? A large fleet of networked cars that were built from the ground up to provide real-world data (includin
by gary_0 4y ago
> what secret sauce have they got that no one else has?
A large fleet of networked cars that were built from the ground up to provide real-world data (including cameras and human driver inputs) for AI training.
Honestly I kind of wonder if Tesla's software team (or overall technical approach) wasn't very badly mismanaged since they seem to have thrown away a huge head start. Or maybe autonomous car AI is just really hard.
- sidibe 4y ago> Honestly I kind of wonder if Tesla's software team (or overall technical approach) wasn't very badly mismanaged since they seem to have thrown away a huge head start. Keep in mind they are likely spending 10x or less than Waymo on FSD, so a lot less employees/researchers, have been around a lot less time and have decided not to use the sensors and ground truth data that Waymo relies on. Just having lots of data isn't necessarily very useful, or we'd see the pure FSD trying to get their sensors on everybody's cars.
- gary_0 4y agoWhere are you getting "10x or less" from? Googling says Waymo burns about $1 billion/year, and Tesla's 2022 R&D budget was $3 billion.