Also everybody wants to work at Tesla , not so much Waymo.
Unless you think there is a correlation between the IQ of people who are turned off by Musk and Tesla hype antics (and "faking it till you make it" kind of process) , then there is reason to believe that Tesla is in a better position to attack the problem and not Waymo.
I certainly think that the smartest and most ethical engineers in the SDC space are turned off by Musk and Tesla.
I'm sure there are plenty of unethical engineers, like Anthony Levandowski, who will do whatever Tesla needs, though. After all, Facebook still employees many of the best engineers in software.
In my experience it's very rare to find a person that has a strong overlap of book smarts and street smarts
These people idolize Musk, just look around in here.
>Also everybody wants to work at Tesla , not so much Waymo.
Highly doubt both of these. Tesla has a bigger budget total than Waymo but Tesla's FSD team is probably smaller than Waymo. Plus they have much more access to compute resources and AI expertise, Alphabet's R&D spend on AI is probably close to Tesla's entire revenue
Besides Musk is willing to push the company on the brink of bankruptcy and is able to convince Wall St. to allow him to do so.
Larry & Sergey won't ever push Google on the brink of bankruptcy just to make Waymo a success.
I think that works in a lot of cases, yes. I would need to be convinced that SDC is one of them.
If you think of the state of AI (and anyone who's used Google Assistant or kept up with IBM Watson knows that it essentially doesn't exist), SDC is such a massive breakthrough that it's hard to imagine someone faking it until they make it. It's like saying someone is going to fake their way to practical fusion reactors (exaggerating, but you know what I mean).