Artful Dodger
"Neko no me"
Am I missing something? How will Tesla learn the unique subtleties of the countless intersections across the world?
All Tesla FSD cars will have connectivity. They won't need to upload a finished 3-D model (Tesla's version of a hi-rez map) to be helpful, just the vector results +solution provided by the path-planning NN.
Whenever a car is operating in FSD mode in a place its never been (and the best route isn't obvious, like a mall parking lot), it can just send a query to the mothership requesting a suggested route.
The FSD executes that route (or modifies it) based on what its own sensors see in realtime. The car obviously can cache route plans for places to goes often, or even cache in advance for places its never been.
The trigger point for the upload is the key, yet ultimately also very simple: whenever the usual vision + path-planning process results in a sub-optimal route, then the updated plan is flagged to be saved locally. And potentially uploaded to the mothership to be shared with other members of the fleet.
Tesla already does a rudimentary version of this shared path planning via its Traffic updates for routing.
TL;dr They GOT THIS. Computer science'n'*sugar*.
Cheers!
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