jimmah(@jamesdouma):TBF - HD maps was a good approach when Waymo started. And if deep learning hadn’t come along it would be the only way to do this. But deep learning did come along and now we have camera based general driving intelligence. I think it’s good for the world that we have two different approaches to this problem being pursued. We have Tesla as a primary path and Waymo as a backup. It doesn’t look like we’re going to need the backup, but it’s good to have it.

2026.10.07 00:45

TBF - HD maps was a good approach when Waymo started. And if deep learning hadn’t come along it would be the only way to do this. But deep learning did come along and now we have camera based general driving intelligence. I think it’s good for the world that we have two different approaches to this problem being pursued. We have Tesla as a primary path and Waymo as a backup. It doesn’t look like we’re going to need the backup, but it’s good to have it.

Genma_Jp@nymbusjp

2026.10.06 12:25

Waymo was born too early. The HD map was a brilliant crutch: centimeter-perfect, hand-checked, roof-lidar-dependent… and impossible to scale. 12 minutes on why the map is proof that the intelligence is missing, and why FSD drives anywhere. 🎥👇