How Tesla Builds Full Self-Driving with Neural Networks

Matroid · Talk · 30 min · 2020 · YouTube title: Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla

Why it's here

HN repeatedly points to it as the best public technical overview of Tesla's FSD approach, used both to defend and to critique Tesla's progress.

What it covers

Andrej Karpathy, then Tesla's head of AI, presents at ScaledML 2020 on how Tesla builds full self-driving using vision-based neural nets and fleet data collection. He covers training custom detectors and neural nets gradually replacing traditional code.