
12/03/2025
Tesla shouldn’t be seen as an electric car manufacturer anymore. It’s an AI company—if you believe CEO Elon Musk. His confidence is tied to a unique dataset: petabytes of video harvested from the company’s cars as Tesla customers log millions of driving miles worldwide.
In theory, all that real-world data is exactly what Tesla needs to train its cars to operate without any human assistance, a goal that’s core to Musk's vision for the future of Tesla. But there’s a problem: That data isn’t necessarily as helpful as Musk claims. Some of it isn’t useful at all.
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