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Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

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Re: Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

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I'm confused. The article seems to extrapolate that Tesla has failed in autonomous driving because it removed some lines from its Autopilot page. It's still very much in progress and progress is routinely confirmed by the company. Musk is known for blowing timelines but they do get delivered. When it talks about "old approach" I'm again confused. No one else crowd sources driving data from a real world fleet. They ha…

> Currently Autopilot is very clear on telling at every chance its an assistant. Yep, hence why this article is just clickbait for Tesla haters. Every Tesla owner is fully aware that it's not self-driving in the sense that you can take a nap.

Arse Technica indeed.

Re: Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

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Waymo keeps plugging away. Each year, for the last few years, the number of miles between disconnects they report to the CA DMV has doubled. Three more doublings, and that number will be bigger than average miles between accidents for human drivers. Then they can ship a product. Nobody else is even close. This problem is slowly being solved, by normal engineering practices. The "fake it til you make it" players are b…

I spam this on every waymo mention, so I apologize, but can they please automate highway driving first and then work on getting me through taco bell? I care way more about taking a nap between cities with autorecharge than automating a 4 minute trip to a fast food joint.

If they really are doing this well with non-freeway driving, then that just tells me they could have released freeway driving about 4 years ago.

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