@Tesla: @WholeMarsBlog Teslas are independent from birth

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I find that pretty cool see and something you will see happen a lot more often on EVs just due to the easy of all the parts for it. I expect to see a lot more manufactures start doing that for at least their EV lines as it is relatively easy to program that routing into the computer and safely do it as it is will be in a relatively well controlled environment.

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Yes all the other manufacturers just press the "Catch Up to Tesla" button and the cars will also drive themselves.

I mean, it really only takes one thing they can all buy catching up/surpassing and that's basically a thing.

I think they’ve been hitting ctrl F5 frequently and hard for a while, but the current catch-up seems to be watching the stock drop. Apart from Lucid and Rivian, who is more focused on doing their own thing than catching up, everyone but the Chinese seems to be struggling figuring out what they’re supposed to catch up to. I’m pretty sure VW could have leveraged the $13 billion they’ve pushed into CARIAD if they had an end vision and a roadmap. Instead they were too busy fiddling with touch capacitive buttons to figure out that it’s not about the buttons but about software and hardware working hand in hand. The Chinese to a much bigger extents understands what they’re copying and their local market seems to be quite vocal about it. And on top of that they’re much better at copying. People are so skeptical of Chinese cars. I suspect that the tune will change once they realize how much luxury the Chinese are able to cram into the cars for the price.

Presumably Google or someone else can just licence their L4 technology to those lagging behind.

BMW does it but obviously not pure vision.

We're **many** years away from actual complete FSD.

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Well yeah, I'm not going to write a treatise on Reddit. Waymo and I would say some Chinese firms have superior self-driving technology to that available to Tesla. There's no reason why other car companies wouldn't license it if it made sense for them to do so.

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Yes, these problems make having cars self-driving around factories a completely unsurmountable problem for anyone but Tesla...

Most of the stuff in most cars people touched in recent years has been coming out of China anyway, so who thought they couldn’t just build their own cars and remove the middlemen in their cushy office jobs in Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Detroit, right?

I literally just had a dream where my Tesla was moody and decided to drive off on its own, I had to chase it down like a dad on a teen. The AI singularity is closing in on us.