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But where an old-school car company has faltered, a sprawling tech giant (Alphabet) and an electric vehicle company with ascendent political backing (Tesla) are going all in.
"I would say the Tesla has examples of maybe 10,000 or maybe a million times more data than Waymo does in terms of all other scenarios of driving," he added. The unveiling of Tesla's "Cybercab ...
Earlier in January, Krafcik said Waymo would be dropping the term "self-driving" from its lexicon in a jab at Tesla's $10,000 feature that says it offers "full self-driving capability." Waymo said ...
Waymo Carcraft is a virtual world where Waymo can simulate driving conditions. [95] [96] The simulator was named after the video game World of Warcraft. [95] [96] With Carcraft, 25,000 virtual self-driving cars navigate through models of Austin, Texas; Mountain View, California; Phoenix, Arizona; and other cities. [95]
Contrast that to Tesla, which has yet to prove its Full-Self Driving system is fully autonomous despite Musk's repeated proclamations that the company is almost there.
Vendors have taken a variety of approaches to the self-driving problem. Tesla's approach is to allow their "full self-driving" (FSD) system to be used in all ODDs as a Level 2 (hands/on, eyes/on) ADAS. [66] Waymo picked specific ODDs (city streets in Phoenix and San Francisco) for their Level 5 robotaxi service. [67]
Tesla has so far not been a direct competitor to Waymo—its fallaciously named “full self-driving” (FSD) technology is more akin to an advanced driver-assist system, requiring a human driver ...
GM’s new plan to integrate self-driving technology into its own cars, meanwhile, looks a lot like Tesla’s existing, and controversial, approach of offering limited autonomous driving ...