[ofcourseyoudo]

> Tesla will eventually be the largest company on Earth

This is quite a take. I guess you're basing this on FSD becoming a huge moneymaker for them, but that's unlikely given it's not true FSD and it's only Level 2 autonomy, and Level 3 is probably years away for them. Compare to Mercedes, who just got Level 3 approved in Nevada. It's under very specific conditions, but while it's activated, Mercedes assumes liability. I don't see Tesla doing that before 2026.

[maxharris]

I don't know what Mercedes is doing. If it is so great, why does it have to be geofenced?

[ofcourseyoudo]

So you think Tesla is going to outpace every other company (auto or not) and you have no knowledge of the competition within its specific industry?

[maxharris]

I don't know and that's why I'm asking you. How does Mercedes self-driving work? Why is it geofenced?

[sidibe]

They are trying to make something that works reliably in some conditions. That is harder and better than what Tesla does. All this talk about geofences isn't about whether the car can figure out how to drive anywhere but whether the car can drive reliably somewhere, which is the hard problem which Tesla is avoiding.

IMO adding very unreliable features like FSD should not even be legal. The car should be very good at what it tries to do.

[maxharris]

The question I asked was how the approach Mercedes is taking actually works. Does it use LiDAR? Does it rely on pre-programmed maps? I'm asking for technical details, not normative statements.

[ofcourseyoudo]

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[ofcourseyoudo]

You said this:

>Tesla will eventually be the largest company on Earth, and no one else is close.

And yet you have no way of knowing how "close" the "no one" companies are if you have zero knowledge of a competitor that has already surpassed their technology.

Cut the hyperbole and talk about things that you have knowledge of.