Waymo CEO says Tesla doesn't have self-driving, Musk hits back: "Better than you"

Recently, Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in an interview with the media that for Waymo, Tesla is not a competitor at all. For example, the "complete autonomous driving kit" that Tesla has been promoting is not the right path to achieve fully autonomous driving.

Later, in response to John Krafcik's remarks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded on Twitter: "Tesla's artificial intelligence hardware and software are better than Google's Waymo."

The main reason why John Krafcik completely denied Tesla's technical route is that Tesla gave up the LiDAR sensor in order to control the cost of the whole vehicle. However, Waymo believes that if it wants to achieve fully unmanned driving, then the LiDAR sensor is indispensable.

So which one has better autonomous driving technology, Waymo or Tesla? A data report released in 2020 by Navigant Research, a US research firm, may give us the answer.

From the above picture, we can see that in the upper right corner, which is the first camp of global autonomous driving, are Waymo, Cruise and Ford. In contrast, Tesla is in the lower left corner of the picture, even lagging behind traditional car companies such as BMW and Toyota.

In fact, although Musk has repeatedly claimed that his company's self-driving technology is ready, to this day, we still haven't seen Tesla push "full self-driving" software to its users on a large scale. From this point of view, Tesla's self-driving technology is more like a capital story.

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