Tesla Autonomy Day

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited both as a primary source on Tesla's technical autonomy approach and, later, for Musk's unmet robotaxi predictions.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tesla

Topic

tesla self-driving

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• After the recent "Tesla Autonomy Day" video [VIDEO] (almost 4h long, but worth a watch), I do rather feel like the incumbent services are about to be in a spot of bother. I think there's a bubble in this sector, and it's going to pop.

• Watch the presentation from 6 months ago, where they explain the decision to build their own hardware for inferring : [VIDEO] It's not surprising that they also build the hardware for training. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Google use the same TPUs for training …

• I heard from a tesla engineer that they do use lidar to train their models, but that they don’t see the value in deploying it to the fleet. It’s worth watching the tesla event from about a year ago if you haven’t seen it for …