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Tesla’s methodology—minimizing sensors and maximizing vision-based AI, combined with its massive data collection—sets it apart from competition. This cutting-edge approach leverages AI advances, like transformer models and neural networks, which have shown rapid improvements in the past year. These technological shifts make the prospect of achieving full autonomy within the next few years increasingly probable.
Conversations among experts underscore both optimism and the caution that no one has yet done this at scale before. The complexity of deploying autonomous fleets, the need for continuous updates, and the requirement for extensive validation mean that timelines are estimates rather than guarantees.