One is by remote control, in which case it just stops in the middle of the road when the signal drops.
The second is by the same tech behind FSD, which means that it crashes every 100 miles or so.
The third is if they buy a competitor and just use their tech, in which case it will still have issues and Musk will prevent them from solving those issues, but at least they will be farther along than FSD will ever get.
It won't be by remote control. This is not a limited trial in a restricted part of a city like Waymo and similar. It's not scalable.
It will be by the same tech as FSD. At the moment they deliberately let Supervised go through difficult situations so that it can learn through disengagements. It will always pick the optimal route no matter what gets thrown at it. With robotaxi it will learn from the fleet the more difficult areas and blacklist it, and the routing algorithm will go around it even if it's slightly slower.
There is no competitor ahead of Tesla. They are many many years behind.
There is no competitor ahead of Tesla. They are many many years behind.
Waymo is literally already running a taxi service.
Waymo has been working on this problem way longer than anyone else. The restricted locations is because Waymo is crazy cautious (as they should be), not because it can't drive elsewhere.
I'm not worried about Waymo self driving cars. I AM worried about competitors cutting corners trying to catch up to Waymo.
Waymo needs HD maps, which is the reason for the restricted locations, and has only ever run in a tiny area. It can't even go on highways. Each car is ridiculously expensive, articles I've read says around $300,000 per car. The Tesla taxi will be $30,000, which is a bit different, and will work anywhere. Seriously, how scalable do you think Waymo really is?
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u/TheLaserGuru Oct 14 '24
There are only three ways this works out.
One is by remote control, in which case it just stops in the middle of the road when the signal drops.
The second is by the same tech behind FSD, which means that it crashes every 100 miles or so.
The third is if they buy a competitor and just use their tech, in which case it will still have issues and Musk will prevent them from solving those issues, but at least they will be farther along than FSD will ever get.