Tesla uberbulls often like to say that Tesla is the leader in self-driving because while it doesn’t have a commercially available autonomous ride-hailing service like Waymo, it doesn’t rely on geo-fencing and mapping like Waymo.
They argue that if Tesla wanted to do that it could, but it prefers to focus on an autonomous system that could drive anywhere, anytime, without mapping.
However, it is questionable that they could do it if they wanted to because they still haven’t done it on a project much simpler than Waymo’s operations in Pheonix and other cities: the tunnels under Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project currently in commercial use.
Elon Musk’s tunneling start-up completed the $50 million project in just over a year.
A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which Tesla electric vehicles travel at high speeds between stations to transport people within a city. The Boring Company said that it was working with Tesla to use its self-driving system inside those tunnels, which would enables to get rid of the current drivers and lower the cost of operation.
However, 2 years and several more tunnels connected to the Loop later, The Boring Company is still using drivers in the tunnels.
I thought they were going to put rails down there so you could drive your car onto a platform thing and then it would zip you off wherever you wanted? That would enable the same rails to run subway cars, cargo pods, etc… Why the fuck are they trying to just have it rely on Tesla camera- only FSD? It’s a homogeneous tube with no distinguishing features. If Elon thought that was going to work then I feel like he knows even less about robotics and computer vision than I thought he did.
They could just paint some things down there to follow. This should not be that hard.
Because Elon wants to sell more cars. That’s all there is to it. If you put rails there, you’d essentially have a subway, and Elon doesn’t make as much money from that.
You should look up the videos for it. It’s a pretty funny waste of money and time. You basically wait in line to get in a car with strangers to drive 15 minutes what would have took you 5 minutes to walk.
Wow that’s disappointing