[lahwran]

you're correct that this sort of persistent world modeling is needed for self driving cars, but from what I've heard from friends who work in the industry, both cruise and waymo have it. they're very far from using a plain CNN on their video cameras, they've got depth mapping and such and carefully constructed software making use of the perception data to model how the world will change and react to that. idk if it works well, but they definitely know they need it and are trying.

that said, I've driven a tesla on autopilot, and holy crap is was so incredibly bad. I'm optimistic about self driving cars in general, but not about tesla's. it will frequently lose track of the road lines at night and fail to make turns, suddenly beeping at you that you're in control now, with no warning! I only ever used it like cruise control, but I can't understand how anyone driving a tesla would dare use the tricks that allow bypassing the restrictions that prevent taking your hands off the wheel.