Tesla has been investing in the hardware and software ecosystems necessary to achieve vehicle autonomy and a ride-hailing service. They believe a scalable and profitable autonomy business can be realized through a vision-only architecture with end-to-end neural networks, trained on billions of miles of real-world data.
Tesla had over 35,000 H100 at the end of March and likely has over 100,000 Nvidia H100 now.
They had 170 Exaflops of compute (4 petaflops per H100).
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Good thing Tesla already runs an insurance business.
As for where are AI cars legal, Tesla’s approach will likely be the opposite. Find markets where AI car operations aren’t explicitly illegal.
Slip through the existing regulations rather than trying to beat down the front door.
FSD won’t be allowed by regulators until the liability issues are clarified, probably with some sort of no-fault insurance pool, likely funded by investors that have nothing to do with Tesla company or individual owners of Teslas.
No matter how good FSD gets, there will be other drivers, human or not, edge cases, mechanical/computer/software failures. All of these have to be handled and maybe tested in real world lawsuits, with clear liability assignment. Right now, Tesla insists on driver liability. That’s not FSD and it certainly isn’t driverless cars.
When did regulators approve self-driving cars without an operator? I was still thinking that was years in the future. Maybe some state government (Texas?) will approve it in as little as 5 years from now.
When ever the date is, I’m confident no one will make money from that app (if ever) until Federal, State, and local regulators approve letting individuals operate or rent a self driving car with no one in the drivers seat. Years from now. The app just needs to be used instead of the Uber or Lyft apps. Certainly they will add the exact same “Rent a self-driving Tesla” option/button once operator-less cars are approved by Federal, State and local governments. An insane number of people are going to have to download the Tesla app (in the distant future) for it to compete with the Uber and Lyft apps offering the exact same choice. Don’t count on this as a future revenue stream for Tesla. I think its just a type of advertising/publicity stunt more than an actual product.