$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ Tesla bets on “black box” AI technology fo...

Excerpt from 2024/10/10 10:00 UTC Reuters

Tesla's strategy is simpler and cheaper, but it has two fatal weaknesses, industry executives, autonomous vehicle experts, and one Tesla engineer told Reuters. Tesla systems that do not have multi-layered technology such as those adopted by other companies in the same industry struggle more with so-called “edge cases,” that is, rare driving scenarios where autonomous driving systems and their human engineers struggle to predict.

Tesla engineers said that end-to-end AI technology is a “black box,” and “when it malfunctions and causes an accident, it is almost impossible to confirm what went wrong.” Since such faults cannot be accurately identified, it becomes difficult to protect oneself from such faults, he said.

The shortcomings of Tesla's approach have been reported

Tech Talks “Tesla AI Chief Promises Why Self-Driving Cars Don't Need Lidar”

By Ben Dickson -June 28, 2021

Exactly the same as the comment by the first contributor out of 10 readers right after. As expected, Tesla engineers seem to be aware of this shortcoming. In the unlikely event that fully autonomous driving can be realized with just a Tesla camera, ask ChatGPT or CoPilot, “Guess the dream I had today?” If you ask the question, it's not that different from accurately guessing it.