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Why does Tesla have an advantage in autonomous driving data?

Tesla's vehicle fleet functions as a distributed real-world sensor network, continuously logging driving footage and edge cases across billions of miles. That scale of physical, real-world data is very difficult for competitors without a comparable fleet to replicate through simulation or smaller datasets alone.

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