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Vector Space

Vector Space is Tesla's representation of the driving environment. Instead of working with raw pixels or object detections, the system converts the environment into a vector space representation.

Key Concepts

  • Lanes, roads, and paths are represented as vectors
  • Objects and their trajectories are vectorized
  • Makes planning and decision-making more efficient
  • Enables end-to-end learning
  • Benefits

  • More efficient than pixel-level processing
  • Easier to reason about spatial relationships
  • Better for planning algorithms
  • Enables neural networks to learn driving policies directly
  • Implementation

  • Neural networks learn to convert camera inputs to vector space
  • Planning happens in this vector space
  • Control outputs are generated from vector space representations
  • This approach is central to Tesla's end-to-end learning strategy, allowing the system to learn optimal driving behaviors directly from data.

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