So you’re going to ignore all the data Tesla is collecting, and it’s purely AI approach?
Very biased comments here, I get it, everyone hates Elon, but let’s not lie to ourselves.
No one's ignoring it. They're saying that Waymo currently works, and Tesla Self Driving does not currently work.
My Tesla drives me around the city autonomously every day and you're telling me it doesn't
Waymo is restricted to very specific pre-mapped areas. It is not a scalable solution.
For all their faults, one thing you can't say about Google is they don't know how to scale. Prior to Google Maps, Street View would have seemed impossibly expensive, but now we take it for granted. If they need to do a LIDAR run with a car over every public road in the US for them to deploy it, it seems like they could just do that. All they'd have to do is add LIDAR sensors to the existing Street View imaging fleet and continue running them.
If it turns out LIDAR 3d mapping is needed, how much is camera-only data worth?
If on the chance Lidar is needed, which I know it's not because my car drives me in every type of situation I've thrown at it, then camera only data is still valuable because it gathers so many crazy edge cases.