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- Spinning-out vehicles ahead: Tesla’s system detects imminent second-order collisions—where the aftermath of a vehicle losing control becomes an obstacle—and reacts early, often before humans do.
Elliwami highlighted that these scenarios are notoriously hard to script explicitly, but end-to-end neural models, trained on massive amounts of real-world data, can handle them seamlessly.
Data Management and Corner Cases
Handling billions of tokens of data—representing many hours of driving—is a formidable challenge for any AI system. Tesla’s advantage lies in utilizing massive, continuous data feeds from its fleet, amounting to the equivalent of storing hundreds of years of driving data daily.