Another critical advantage lies in Tesla’s Niagara Falls of real-world data. The company’s real-world simulator is remarkable, but simulation alone can be copied. What cannot be easily replicated is Tesla’s ability to feed authentic driving scenarios into that simulator. Without massive scenario data, generating (or templating) rare and unusual real-world edge cases becomes exponentially harder than most realize.
Finally, Tesla’s solution is defined by scale: every Tesla vehicle is a capable robot, by vision alone. (The LiDAR debate is long over.)