This reminds me of George Hotz's Comma.ai end to end reinforcement learning approach vs Tesla's feature-engineering based approach described in an article I read.

Hotz feels that "not only will comma outpace Tesla, but that Tesla will eventually adopt comma’s method."[1]

[1]: https://return.life/2022/03/07/george-hotz-comma-ride-or-die

Previous discussion on the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738763