I know Tesla fans won't read the article and claim that I don't understand the difference between the maps Tesla wants to create and Waymo's HD mapping that Elon has trashed. Read the article. I understand, and you are the one missing the point. At the end of the day, it comes down to understanding your environment, and Ashok's comments about Tesla creating its own maps were about FSD not being able to recognize things like speed signs. Tesla has always used navigation maps, and building its own instead of licensing them isn’t a contradiction on its own. But look at the problems Tesla is trying to fix. Speed limits, parking and routes are all about understanding the environment, and FSD still often fails at it, especially with speed limit signs. A speed limit sign is about as simple as road information gets. If an end-to-end vision system can’t reliably read and apply it, and the fix is a better map, then vision alone isn’t doing the job Tesla said it would. Tesla’s fleet is now a mapping fleet That brings Tesla closer to Waymo than it would like to admit. Waymo maps a city by driving its sensor-equipped vehicles through it before launching service, and keeps those maps updated as its fleet drives. Tesla is now describing the same idea: its cars collect what they see, and that data feeds a Tesla-built map that helps every car drive better. The main difference is that Waymo’s cars have lidar on top and can deliver HD maps. At one point, $TSLA fans are going to have to admit that Tesla's approach to self-driving shares many of the same problems as Waymo.