Skeptical of comparing egocentric robot data collection to Tesla FSD
binarybits · x · 2026-08-27
Author expresses skepticism about the video's analogy between egocentric data collection for robots and Tesla's FSD data collection. The author argues Tesla is not the leading AV company, unlike Waymo, which collected tens of millions of dollars of real-world data with safety drivers—analogous to robot actions with human supervision/teleop.
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