Elon Musk: Tesla’s Self-Driving Tech Is Unbeatable—Tailored Hardware Meets Purpose-Built Software

Elon Musk: The combination of our self-driving software and hardware is unbeatable.

“Our strategy, which we started a little over three years ago, is to design and build a computer that is fully optimized and aiming for full self-driving, then write software that is designed to work specifically on that computer and get the most out of that computer.

You have tailored hardware that is a master of one trade, self-driving. Nvidia is a great company, but they have many customers, and so they apply their resources to do a generalized solution. We care about one thing: Self-driving.

So it was designed to do that incredibly well. The software is also designed to run on that hardware incredibly well. The combination of the software and the hardware, I think, is unbeatable.”

Tesla Autonomy Day, April 22, 2019