The greatest miscalculation the legacy auto industry ever made was doubting Elon's approach to Full Self-Driving
For years, Wall Street aggressively shorted Tesla, and the legacy auto industry laughed. They confidently declared that Elon Musk’s approach to autonomy would fail
Today, they are realizing they are completely stuck
Here is how Elon solved the toughest problem in tech:
The First Principles Approach:
Elon admitted that FSD turned out to be exponentially harder than anyone expected. Because to solve self-driving, you aren't just writing code.....you basically have to recreate human biology in digital form
Think about it: The entire global road system is designed to work for humans. We drive using optical sensors (our eyes) and a biological neural net (our brain)
The Vision-Only Breakthrough:
While legacy auto relied on expensive crutches like LiDAR, pre-mapped routes, and hard-coded rules, Elon looked at the real world. He knew that if an AI couldn't make decisions entirely on its own, it would eventually encounter edge cases and freeze
Tesla took a path everyone deemed impossible: Vision-only, end-to-end neural networks
The result was insane
The industry that said "it will never work" is now scrambling. They completely misunderstood the problem, and now they are stuck a decade behind. Tesla has achieved what the rest of the automotive world couldn't even comprehend
Today, most people using Tesla FSD are blown away by the way it makes a decision just like a human would
All achieved with pure vision
xAI is committed to deploying artificial intelligence that makes the lives of people better as well as adding more power near our datacenters to reduce the cost of energy for the American people
NEWS: Tesla ranked 1st on supply chain sustainability in the 2026 Lead the Charge auto/EV supply chain scorecard.
"@Tesla remains the top performing automaker of the Leaderboard for the second year running, and increased its overall score by 6 percentage points, while Ford only managed 2 percentage points. The gap between the two companies has widened: Tesla is now almost 5 percentage points ahead of Ford.
Tesla reclaimed the top position in the battery section with an impressive 20 percentage point score increase. Tesla is now the first company to score more than 50% in this subsection and also the first company to fully meet the battery emissions disclosure indicator, after disclosing the individual contributions of cell production and key materials (including lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite) to its battery supply chain emissions.
Tesla disclosed a new offtake agreement for low-carbon aluminum in North America, with an emission intensity below 2kg of CO2e per kg of aluminum which is achieved commercially through usage of post-consumer recycled scrap content. The company also disclosed additional details about its efforts to enhance aluminum recycling."
I've linked the full 105 page @Lead_theCharge report in the thread below.
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