> Zoox planned from the beginning to develop the technology, build a car and operate a robotaxi service. Not even Waymo is trying to bite off that much (although Cruise is).
Is Tesla intentionally omitted or am I missing something?
I think the tech press doesn't believe that Tesla is building a self-driving product.
I don't know if camera based computer vision by itself will ever be enough for full self driving. I think we can demonstrate that it is not enough at this time, and we can also demonstrate that human vision also fails at times; human vision has the benefit of some extremely specialized "software"
There are many tech and non-tech press which didn't believe in anything posted on the "master plans" published by Tesla, and they are still in denial.
Meanwhile, Tesla has been making huge leaps of progress and collecting billions of miles worth of data to improve their systems. What is available right now, and has been so for a couple of years, is unmatched by any of their competitors.
I am interested to see how Zoox and others will compete against massive amounts of data on corner case scenarios and real-world driving.
The data from real world is far more important than simulations.
Rebuttal: If you had a 3D camera sitting in the driver's seat of a car and hooked up the control to a remote controller, I believe that car could be drive-able. A sufficiently advanced perception/control system could theoretically use the same 3D camera feed and replace the driver. Not saying it's easy, just that all the necessary info to drive a car safely can be contained in camera feeds.
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/06/01/video-tesla-model-3-cras...