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Also and I'd forgotten to mention, but what you see in the on-screen representation is entirely divorced from the actual stack doing your driving. They're basically running a small video game using the virtual world map they build and rendering in assets and such from there. It's meant to give you a reasonable look into what the car sees and might do, but they've confirmed that it is in no way tied to the underlying neural decision network.
But that's exactly the point.
if the virtual map they're building from cameras is complete, correct and stable (and presumably some other criteria that I didn't think of from the top of my head), then the cameras would be sufficient.
The underlying neural decision network can still fuck things up from a correct virtual world map.
Now, how good is the virtual world map in real world conditions?
You're missing the point though maybe? You can't take data, run it through what is essentially lossy compression, and then get the same data back out. Best you can do is a facsimile of it that suffers in some regard.