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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by greeneggs on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:29PM (#12755860)
> Thousands of cars out there collecting data is a huge advantage over groups working with a handful of prototypes.

I'm not sure this is true. At least for Google, it seems like the main bottleneck to progress is engineering time to fix the problems that arise. The problem is not a lack of vehicles driving and finding problems.

I say this because Google has made very little effort to expand their fleet of testing vehicles. The last big expansion, from 28 to 48 vehicles, was in Sept. 2015. Since then they've expanded from 48 to 58, but it doesn't seem to be a priority. [1]

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v0BBTDOXvD8JdhrySFy6...

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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by zardo on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:37PM (#12756406)
I think it's just that it isn't an option. The data from 100 cars isnt much more useful than the data from 50. That doesn't mean the data from 10000 cars isn't much more useful than the data from 50.

It just isn't reasonable for Google to build and manage a fleet of that size for a development program. It would cost Google half a billion dollars, but for Tesla it's just a bit of cost they roll into the product.

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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by codeulike on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:07PM (#12756608)
Teslas approach is different to Google's. Tesla is gathering hi-res location data from both human driven and autopilot driven cars to build an accurate map of every lane of every highway.
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by yessql on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:55PM (#12756527)
Depends on the algorithms you are using. In machine learning, bigger data sets can trump better algorithms.
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by sliken on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:26AM (#12758331)
Sure. But having auto-pilot a significant % of the roads in the USA (and norway by the sounds of it) gives tesla an advantage. After all you can't learn from a road you haven't been on.
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