In keeping with his longstanding pattern of “refusing to learn any lessons from the way things have been done before,” Musk just admitted on the call that he thinks it’s “increasingly likely that there will be a localized parameter set” for Tesla’s upcoming robotaxi service.
He waxed on about how human drivers can be good in California, but bad in New York snow, and so Tesla is looking at setting these “parameters” – he didn’t define them – for different places.
There is a term for this already: Operational Design Domains. And it’s how Waymo (and other AV companies) have been approaching the problem of self-driving vehicles for years. Musk has spent years claiming Tesla will come up with a general self-driving solution that will work everywhere, but once again he seems to be changing his tune.
