This year I believe you'll see a compact Tesla for 250$ a month with 0$ down that will change the car market.

Is the bolt running well?

If Tesla released a Tesla compact tomorrow for $250 a month. What would you tell friends to go for. The Bolt or the Tesla? ...and what would be the main reasons for you choice? :)

Do you know what their profit margins are per car?

Thanks for the insight!

It also seems like this rabbit hole is much deeper than we initially expected. I saw a clip with Elon all the way back to 2015, pretty much every year saying that they expect FSV to be fully self driving next year. The AI is just not there yet, and maybe the tools we have right now are just not sufficient...

FSV doesn't at least. They build a 3d picture of the world using the cameras, which is pretty impressive. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM23sjhtk4Q

...and to my knowledge Vaymo seems to use the most sensors: Lidar, Radar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors.

That's also my conclusion:)!

>GM supercruise

Thanks Devadander:) I've actually looked into Supercruise a bit. I saw it didn't recognise the end of road and just pass onto grass. It seemed a bit off.

I'll dig into Mercedes. Thanks

It seems highways are the easiest of self-driving because of its predictability.

The main issue that needs to be overcome it seems, is that AI has to be able to interpret the world as well as a human does...

With that said, if cars can interact the can move as one and it would be a leap forward.

I think that in general autonomous driving is already more safe than human driving. Try to check out this guys experiences driving with FSV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXuVNl8YYc

It's quite clear that the AI is just not there yet. Stops at so many places where humans wouldn't. You simply can't rely on the system...

I'm actually also surprised that autonomous driving hasn't become political yet as well.

I think thats the real reason why Radar is used. Lidar and cameras see pretty much the same, whereas the wavelength of Radar can penetrate things like rain and snow, and thereby provide good "sight" under those conditions...

I think going full "predator" mode with infrared and uv would not make so much sense

lol, and you can argue that teslas actually have way more cameras than we have eyes...

As a family we plan to buy an autonomous vehicle as a robotaxi when level 5 has arrived, because at that point you have a business that takes care of itself...

Level 5 is very difficult to achieve, but once it's achieved we believe that we can use the vehicle just like when we Airbnb our house.
I think that's the main reason lvl 5 will change the world. Your car becomes a business and fever people will require a car, because the cars are pooled...

I agree, we are definitely on a exponential curve! In my company we work with machine learning and we see the development...