Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly points to it as the best public technical overview of Tesla's FSD approach, used both to defend and to critique Tesla's progress.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Matroid

Topic

self-driving neural networks

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

16

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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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• If you actually believe that Tesla will fail to deliver full self-driving in the coming years, I have two questions. 1. have you watched this entire technical presentation made by Andrej Karpathy, Senior Director of AI at Tesla? [VIDEO] 2. if you understand what you've …

• Removing the cameras may be a good idea, but note that their extensive fleet of camera-equipped vehicles is an important part of their potentially VERY lucrative self driving software development. EDIT: I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their …

• You can learn about their systems by watching talks by Andrej Karpathy. As a robotics engineer interested in vision, their architecture is inspiring. This talk [1] is a good overview but each talk he gives is a little different so search for more if you …