[mrshadowgoose]

It's not at all clear why that wouldn't scale, could you elaborate? Legitimately not being snarky. The existence of Google Street View seems to be a fairly strong counterpoint.

> The point of those startups (and tesla's) is to produce something that can drive everywhere whitout prior information

Nope. The point is to make asstons of money. One does not need to achieve this silly ideal in order to do so.