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It is perfectly possible to make an autonomous robot without having a built-in map. Stanley did it, and Google's self driving car project is mostly guys from SAIL who worked on that or related projects. You can do it, it's just not nearly reliable enough to actually do on the highway at high speed with squishy people inside and all around yet. It's not out of the question that someone will make it work eventually, but I don't think that someone will be working at Tesla either.Google is building a map of the Alps and refining their stopwatch. Tesla is pretending that eventually they'll be able to AI their way to driving better than you. The former is a well-defined problem. The latter is an open-ended clusterfuck.