> By 2020, we will have 2 orders of magnitude more data.

Sure, but so will Google. Their latest claim is > 1.5m autonomous miles and thanks to their Streetview project they have a ton more detailed mapping data than that.

Google doesn't currently have a plan to scale.

Btw, I'm not saying that Google didn't do a great job, and make valuable progress. The game, however, is about to take a huge leap. Google was an early investor in Uber and many thought they were going to cooperate.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted... Tesla already collects as much sensor data in a day as Google has in the entire history of their program.

Because it's wrong.

First, tesla collects zero lidar data. So no, they don't, because they don't collect the same kind of sensor data.

The second assumption is that the sensor data google is collecting, that is similar to tesla's, can only be collected by google's self driving fleet ,and not any of the other ways google has to collect data.

Because, as above, it's not the same kind of sensor data, this is also false.

And Uber? i didn't make any claims about the current status, but a few years out. Tesla is using radar, instead of lidar, and cameras. Their goal is fully autonomous and they believe they can do it with their current set up. Their equipment could change, of course, but they will soon be shipping 100,000 cars a year.

While you're picking nits and calling things wrong, note that a lidar-equipped Tesla has been seen at Tesla HQ. So it's not zero, but that's OK, I won't refer to your statement as being "false", just over-confident.

One could say something like 'Reddit produces more words in 24 minutes than Shakespeare produced in his career', but there is a substantial qualitative difference between those two datasets.