He doesn't has to start everywhere.

It's already interesting if he does it in a big city he knows we'll.

Nonetheless the YT videos of the self driving stuff looks quite good.

You need to start somewhere and others are already doing it.

The others are much further along than Tesla because they aren't making hardware decisions to sell profitable cars. Waymo and Cruise both use radars, lidars, and more cameras than Tesla.

The last time I watched their keynote and deep dives, at least from ml point of view they do a lot right

Tesla is far far closer to realizing a fully self driving car. Since Tesla made FSD (supervised) available for everyone in the US, a couple of weeks ago, there have been mountains of videos posted on X of people driving in all kinds of wild real world conditions, including big city driving, long road trips, in construction zones, crazy weather etc etc. [1]

Tesla announced a couple of days ago that they had passed 1 billion(!) miles on FSD, and growing exponentially [2]. In Elon's master plan from 8 years ago, he wrote they expected 6 billion miles before more global regulatory approval [3].

It's not there yet, but it's far far closer than most people realize. Me, personally, I think end of 2024, Tesla can demonstrate 2-3 billion miles driven on FSD and that a self-driving car is at least 10-20x safer than human drivers.

[1] https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1775238945506210004 [2] https://twitter.com/Tesla_AI/status/1776381278071267807 [3] https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux