Almost every vehicle has multiple cameras in it today, plus cellular connectivity. Tesla doesn't have a major advantage here. Plus, the data isn't immediately valuable on its own, it needs to be labelled and fed back into the training. This is all very far from a data flywheel analogy.
Musk equates machine vision to human vision, but that is an over simplification, and the best MV algorithms and methods are still miles away from human capabilities. FSD is very reliant on depth perception, which is much easier to solve with sensors other than stereo vision.
I also don't get your German car company statement, Mercedes has been a technology leader in the automotive space across a number of fronts for quite a while.
Musk equates machine vision to human vision, but that is an over simplification, and the best MV algorithms and methods are still miles away from human capabilities. FSD is very reliant on depth perception, which is much easier to solve with sensors other than stereo vision.
I also don't get your German car company statement, Mercedes has been a technology leader in the automotive space across a number of fronts for quite a while.