[hacoo]

Some background here: in the autonomous vehicles world, it's common to split things up into 'perception' (detecting things around the car and creating a world model), 'planning' (deciding what to do), and 'controls' (giving gas, brake, steering etc so the car smoothly follows the plan). Saying telsa is using AI 'controls' here is probably a misnomer, Musk's statement indicates they are moving the entire planning stack to a NN.

'End to end' is also a bit misleading, as this usually indicates that perception and planning are fused into one network. They aren't doing this (which is probably a good idea), it's only 'end to end' from the planning and possibly controls side.