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Sadly Detroit's Big 3 announced that they believe electric cars are the next big thing so they're cutting back on research for autonomous cars. They're blaming it all on the pandemic. I said publicly that Tesla and Comma.ai would eat their lunch. Now I can add Amazon to the list!

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/20...

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There are numerous Tier 1s (Bosch, Continental, ZF) working on providing autopilot like tech to auto manufacturers. Additionally companies have there own efforts (GM super Cruise for example which btw has nothing to do with Cruise and is developed separately). Comma has open sourced all there code, so good chance the OEMs have someone looking at it.

Apart from GM's supercruise which is only avaialable on a top end Cadillac CT6, there is nothing that rivals OP or AP. Telluride/Pallisade are good but not close to either of above products. Not sure whats holding manufacturers back

I find it weird that they'd pose those two directions as opposites rather than as complementary tech.

Why will Zoox under Amazon eat their lunch, but not as an independent company?

Because under Amazon funding will no longer be an issue. They will be able to install devices in Amazon's rather large fleet and gain millions of miles of experience on roads all over America. It will accelerate their development process significantly.

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