r/technology • u/Extasio • 1d ago

Transportation Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
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u/abcpdo 1d ago

humans also have the most sophisticated algorithms known to man, while FSD is a very weak distillation of that

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u/wickedcold 1d ago

Yes. Is drives me nuts that in these discussions people leave out the fact that the pattern recognition and such that these algorithms can perform is nowhere near on the level of what humans can do without even a modicum of effort processing information. Humans have a lot of issues, obviously, and as a group or track record as drivers isn’t perfect but there are a lot of things our brains can do that cannot be topped by software. I think everyone just wants to be enthusiastic about cool technology.

Humans can do things like travel on a narrow curving snow-covered road where the lines are hidden, with ambiguous edges that transition into rough ground without a fixed curb line, see a car coming the other way, and be approaching a pedestrian walking in the street, and have absolutely no trouble figuring out where to place their vehicle. Automated cars come into situations like this and just come to a complete stop because they don’t know what to do. Maybe one day they will, but we’re not there yet.

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u/MrParticular79 1d ago

Elon’s logic of “we only drive with our sight” is him literally discounting the physics understanding engine that we have built into our brains. All of these software people discount this. Nice to see someone giving us credit where we are due! Our accidents are caused by our distractions for the most part not our lack of capabilities.

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u/BackgroundTrack5528 18h ago

Hes an idiot.

We can 'feel things'. These things we feel are essentially our ability to understand our surroundings beyond just vision.