How Tesla Teaches Cars to Stop

At the 2020 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Tesla's Senior Director of AI, Andrej Karpathy, discussed the challenges of developing autonomous vehicle technology, specifically focusing on the complexities of teaching cars to recognize stop signs. Karpathy highlighted the necessity of handling numerous edge cases, such as occluded or conditionally active stop signs, which require an extensive dataset to ensure Tesla's self-driving neural networks are robust and reliable. By emphasizing dataset curation over model selection, Tesla aims to address the diverse scenarios encountered on the road, thereby continually updating their datasets with real-world conditions. This meticulous approach is crucial for achieving the high quality required for consumer-ready products, a philosophy that can be applied broadly to computer vision model development.