Comment by joakleaf
3 years ago
As someone who also follows the progress online and watch the presentations by Cruise, Tesla, etc, I agree that Cruise is well ahead of Tesla.
It feels like Tesla’s main strategy is to add more data, more compute power, more simulation, and hope for “convergence”. Maybe that will work, but right now it feels like Cruise’s technology feels more mature and thought through.
Is it? Remarkably Tesla’s compute bill does not seems to be growing exponentially with the amount of data it is supposedly collecting.
Point is I would not take anything Elon says at face value. He’s a marketer who is constantly bending the truth.
Have you actually watched the presentations? They are not the NSA storing all data from all cars on a giant hard-drive.
They are deploy code to cars to search for potential interesting, take lots of sample, curate and create a test and training set from that data.
Also how do you know what the Tesla compute bill is? Given their investment in GPU clusters and their own development of Dojo their cost may well have grown exponentially.
> He’s a marketer who is constantly bending the truth.
He is also a CEO of two major companies that have a good track record of achieving interesting technology and growth. So just denigrating him to a 'marketer' says more about yourself.
They’re not though.
As of today I can’t buy a production car with Cruise. You don’t get points for building something that’s theoretically superior but not an actual product. It’s the same story with companies like Apple that wipe the floor of wannabe hardware companies with theoretically better specs. Like Apple, Tesla actually ships.
Cruise is going the uber route for their service. The robo-cars are already available in some areas
Not to the public. Or at least it’s “invite only”.
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What happens if you drop a Cruise car at a random place in North America it has never seen before?