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One interesting bit is that recently Nvidia's CEO said Tesla is ahead of the other companies in the space. My opinion is also that Tesla isn't but then we have a connundrum. Is Nvidia's CEO just saying this because Waymo doesn't buy GPUs from them?

> “Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars,” Huang said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-says-tesla-far-ahe...

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Nvidia's CEO said that a day after Elon raised a capital multi billion dollar capital round all spent on a 100,000 gpu Nvidia cluster for another of his companies, so it could easily just be flattery.

> Is Nvidia's CEO just saying this because Waymo doesn't buy GPUs from them?

Yes.

It's amazing how little you can trust these people even though you would expect that the CEO of NVIDIA has a reputation to maintain.

Did you forget the crypto and nft hype train presentations that Jensen did ~2 years ago?

Bear in mind he was selling shovels to the miners, not shilling coins, I think?

> Is Nvidia's CEO just saying this because Waymo doesn't buy GPUs from them?

Waymo works in limited places and relies on a ridiculous number of sensors. Have you seen one in real life with all its equipment? Surely that makes it less advanced or at less ambitious. Assuming something malicious about Nvidia’s CEO seems like a big leap.

I've always wondered why adding more sensors to a self driving car was such a big deal.

Yes, it makes the cars more expensive but at some point, these parts will get mass produced and they will be cheap as hell.

The more data a car has, the better it should drive.

Once you add sensors you can't promise buyers that their car with less sensors will be just as self driving as the car with more sensors. So adding sensors is a big deal for Tesla, because they are in the market of selling a promise of self driving.

Maybe that's a harsh lesson in making promises that can't be delivered?

Or, more likely, no lessons will be learned and people will still trust what the company says in the future for arbitrary reasons.

Ambition isn't the goal, self driving is. Who cares how many sensors it has as long as it works?

> Who cares how many sensors it has as long as it works?

Funny enough, The original topic was that looking sexier was more profitable than working.

Well, if something will be prohibitively price it is just like not existing.

TIL that Porsche cars don't exist.

You know what I mean, don't catch me on words.

One is literally able to drive itself with no human. The other is advanced cruise control. This is like saying a regular plane is better than a fighter jet because it has less sensors and both can fly.

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