Tesla has the ambition of getting Autopilot advanced to Feature Complete Full Self Driving by 2020. At that point they seem to need a special sort of data collection, basically a way of testing Tesla Network Robo Taxi features with a safety driver in place on a massive scale.
Waymo and others have had small test fleets on the road with backup drivers in place for years, sometimes with summoning by app, but never on a large scale.
What would you think of an introduction of Tesla Network with downloadable phone apps like Uber but with cars provided by Tesla owners who want to join up and get beta FSD?
Since there would be a backup driver this ought to be legal or require only minor changes in California. The goal would be the car operating as much as possible entirely on its own and the owner only intervening if necessary. Every intervention would be a flag for fleet learning.
Tesla might be able to put tens of thousands of FSD Tesla Network robotaxis on the road with owner supervision and get the data needed to gradually transition to driverless operation.
Waymo and others have had small test fleets on the road with backup drivers in place for years, sometimes with summoning by app, but never on a large scale.
What would you think of an introduction of Tesla Network with downloadable phone apps like Uber but with cars provided by Tesla owners who want to join up and get beta FSD?
Since there would be a backup driver this ought to be legal or require only minor changes in California. The goal would be the car operating as much as possible entirely on its own and the owner only intervening if necessary. Every intervention would be a flag for fleet learning.
Tesla might be able to put tens of thousands of FSD Tesla Network robotaxis on the road with owner supervision and get the data needed to gradually transition to driverless operation.