26 December

It's so hard to talk about anything today without people defaulting to their team in whatever fake 'debate' has been set up around it. Like discussing Tesla things, it fires up the anti-Elons and the anti-EVs and anti-renewables teams. But astonishing things are happening in the world. Tesla's entire fleet is a neural learning network. Every driver of a Tesla automatically provides continuous data to a central server, linked to the road they're driving on, which is then fed back to every other Tesla on the road so that the car knows about that location. For example if full-self-driving is a bit slow on a country road, because the central server doesn't have a lot of drivers and data from that road, and you speed up the car while it's driving itself, with the throttle, that's fed back to the learning network. If enough drivers do that in the same location, every Tesla that self-drives there will carry that learning 'go a bit faster here'. I saw this in action driving from the coast to Lithgow a few days ago. On the coast and in Sydney the car followed the exact speed limit. But in regional areas it sometimes slows down a bit, if it doesn't have enough data for that stretch of road. Over time it will build up that data. The entire car fleet gets smarter with every driver, every time your car drives a stretch of road, it's repeating the experience of thousands or even millions of others. Normally you're just one driver, and your learning is restricted to you. I mean, how awesome? You have to experience self-driving to appreciate the genius of the engineering. It already drives up to 10 times better than any human. It's the accumulated wisdom of thousands/millions of drivers.