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by rndmize 2522 days ago
Sounds like they're running their autopilot software on some (all?) of the cars in the wild, where they can compare what the autopilot would do with the actions taken by the human driving the car, and use this to analyze/refine their model/system.

In casual talks with friends, this is something I've expected would be the competitive edge Tesla has over Waymo and the others; driving millions of "virtual miles" strikes me as far less useful than having a human baseline to compare to along with data capture from a fleet in all manner of real situations/locations.

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Which makes me imagine a crazy marketing video where they demonstrate their system is driving the right path and the human crashes.

In huge black font, then they just show the statistics of how often that happens.