So I was reading this blog post from Robert Scoble and Elon's tweet about solving physical world AI and I can't stop thinking about the potential for future revenue streams. TLDR; FSD and the work going into using neural networks to identify objects in the real world is a potential game changer for mapping.
Consider every Tesla becoming a Google Streetview car without any added hardware, it's a huge deal by itself. Apple, Google, and Microsoft make gobs of money just by having mapping data that gets updated maybe every few months at best. Tesla mapping updating in real time? Wow.
So when I think about Waze, everybody loves it because users are reporting in things that they see on the road in real time. The problem of course is that they either have to tap the screen or use voice commands to do so. With Tesla's FSD/NN technology, you wouldn't have to. The car would drive by something, identify it and automatically report it back into the map system without any driver interaction.
There are tons of posts about people who want CarPlay because of Waze. What if Tesla can offer something even better? What if they can offer that to even non-Tesla owners?
Consider every Tesla becoming a Google Streetview car without any added hardware, it's a huge deal by itself. Apple, Google, and Microsoft make gobs of money just by having mapping data that gets updated maybe every few months at best. Tesla mapping updating in real time? Wow.
So when I think about Waze, everybody loves it because users are reporting in things that they see on the road in real time. The problem of course is that they either have to tap the screen or use voice commands to do so. With Tesla's FSD/NN technology, you wouldn't have to. The car would drive by something, identify it and automatically report it back into the map system without any driver interaction.
There are tons of posts about people who want CarPlay because of Waze. What if Tesla can offer something even better? What if they can offer that to even non-Tesla owners?