i think the sentiment isn't that other companies can't gather that scale of data, but that they probably are unable to tie the whole stack together and apply st

i think the sentiment isn't that other companies can't gather that scale of data, but that they probably are unable to tie the whole stack together and apply state of the art algorithms to it. it seems that the self driving car project is formulated as one giant online learning problem. google seems to stand head and shoulders above pretty much anyone when it comes to running production-quality, large scale, online learning algorithms.