Another thing that Elon mentioned (and IIRC confirmed by Ashok) was that FSD is already a good driver in other countries.
That is something I didn’t expect. Looking at our local road infra, there are loads of situations that do not occur in the US. Like country roads that are so narrow that cars can’t pass each other. Every couple of hundred meters there’s a bit of extra asphalt on the side of the road where you have to wait until the car coming from the other side has passed. Or not even that, where one of the 2 cars has to drive a hundred meter in reverse before reaching such a place. Lets not even start with the myriad of traffic signs with a text (in the local language) below indicating in what circumstances the sign is valid. So a robot car would need to be equiped with OCR and an LLM to interpret the instructions (in the cases that info isn’t in the map data).
There have been reports of FSD test drivers in Europe (or at least job descriptions), so maybe Tesla already has some experience with this.
Anyway, if Elon and Ashok are right, introducing FSD in other countries may be much faster than expected.
That is something I didn’t expect. Looking at our local road infra, there are loads of situations that do not occur in the US. Like country roads that are so narrow that cars can’t pass each other. Every couple of hundred meters there’s a bit of extra asphalt on the side of the road where you have to wait until the car coming from the other side has passed. Or not even that, where one of the 2 cars has to drive a hundred meter in reverse before reaching such a place. Lets not even start with the myriad of traffic signs with a text (in the local language) below indicating in what circumstances the sign is valid. So a robot car would need to be equiped with OCR and an LLM to interpret the instructions (in the cases that info isn’t in the map data).
There have been reports of FSD test drivers in Europe (or at least job descriptions), so maybe Tesla already has some experience with this.
Anyway, if Elon and Ashok are right, introducing FSD in other countries may be much faster than expected.