Risk of Tesla camera-only self-driving

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@captainccs

Time will tell but what I’ve seen of the latest versions of FSD, vision only is working well. One problem is that most people are still thinking of AI in terms of obsolete algorithmic AI which was not very good.

Here’s an opinion from someone with technical expertise and close experience with Tesla, also noted in another thread:

@tjscott0

Of course this is just one man’s opinion. But he is an expert in the field.

Tesla’s former head of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, who worked on the automaker’s self-driving effort until 2022, warns against believing that self-driving is solved, and fully autonomous vehicles are happening soon.

Karpathy is a very respected leader in the field of artificial intelligence.

In 2017, Musk poached him from OpenAI and he quickly became the head of Tesla’s AI effort, including leading neural nets for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.

He left Tesla in 2022 and return briefly to OpenAI in 2023 before starting his own in AI education company, Eureka Labs.

The Slovak-Canadian computer scientist is widely regarded as one of the top computer vision experts and he pioneered Tesla’s vision-only approach to self-driving.