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Waymo and Tesla’s self-driving systems are more similar than people think

Everyone is moving toward transformer-based, end-to-end architectures.

Timothy B. Lee
Dec 17, 2025
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This post originally appeared in Understanding AI.

“Many people — especially Tesla fans — believe that Tesla’s self-driving technology is based on cutting-edge end-to-end AI models, while Waymo still …

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