People get hung up on the vision stack and mapping. Obviously, any self-driving car needs a way to perceive the world around it, and Tesla’s approach is very di

People get hung up on the vision stack and mapping. Obviously, any self-driving car needs a way to perceive the world around it, and Tesla’s approach is very different from Waymo. The software that actually does the driving, ie turns the wheel and works the pedals, is very similar between the two companies. Tesla took a big step in Waymo’s direction earlier this year when they replaced their optimization based path planner with a neural network.