cranker2k
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Actually @cranker2k I think its a lot different than the video Tesla showed. They showed a production vehicle, with production hardware. Pre-tested road or not, the difference between a vehicle using in production hardware vs a test mule with constantly calibrated test equipment is light years of difference.
I wouldn't consider that production hardware in the context of being integrated as part of the production car. I don't think they'll put Lidars on top of the roof like that on real production car that is officially promoted and sold as a self-driving vehicle. That's still 3 years away...assuming they are on schedule.
Also, the real production is software and data. If they are production ready, then they can release it now. Software is the brain and machine learning takes time and probably each region (e.g., UK, Germany, Austrial, Japan, US, Mexico) all require learning different patterns that take time. They don't have the fleet to gather data like Tesla does. No one does. Not even Google (but Google might have better ML models).