> Right now though Tesla is the only player with a car that you can buy and will "self drive" anywhere in the country.
But you can't, Tesla is very clear about this. It is 100% your responsibility to check everything the car does, and intervene if it's taking the wrong route, or doing something illegal, or doing something dangerous.
Both Waymo and Mercedes actually understand the limitations of their cars. It's not a problem, but an enormous point of confidence that they can say exactly in which conditions they can or can't operate safely (in certain localitirs for Waymo, on certain very limited types of roads and driving conditions for Mercedes).
The fact that Tesla is trying to do "self driving anywhere, anytime", and actually has 0 clue when it might or might not be actually safe, is a huge red flag, not a thing to be confident about.
> Making full self driving car that doesn't need an expensive and expansive sensor suite. Just off the shelf cameras and a GPU.
This is the other enormous problem with Tesla's approach. They are trying an approach that could only be as safe or safer than human driving if they make a superintelligent agent. This is unlikely to happen anytime soon, and impossible to work on a small GPU inside of a car anytime in the next 50 years (good luck running a multimodal ChatGPT in your car). Adding many more sensors that humans just don't have is the only way to get a leg up on humans cheaply and efficiently.
But you can't, Tesla is very clear about this. It is 100% your responsibility to check everything the car does, and intervene if it's taking the wrong route, or doing something illegal, or doing something dangerous.
Both Waymo and Mercedes actually understand the limitations of their cars. It's not a problem, but an enormous point of confidence that they can say exactly in which conditions they can or can't operate safely (in certain localitirs for Waymo, on certain very limited types of roads and driving conditions for Mercedes).
The fact that Tesla is trying to do "self driving anywhere, anytime", and actually has 0 clue when it might or might not be actually safe, is a huge red flag, not a thing to be confident about.
> Making full self driving car that doesn't need an expensive and expansive sensor suite. Just off the shelf cameras and a GPU.
This is the other enormous problem with Tesla's approach. They are trying an approach that could only be as safe or safer than human driving if they make a superintelligent agent. This is unlikely to happen anytime soon, and impossible to work on a small GPU inside of a car anytime in the next 50 years (good luck running a multimodal ChatGPT in your car). Adding many more sensors that humans just don't have is the only way to get a leg up on humans cheaply and efficiently.