>As a German citizen, it really bugs me that Volkswagen is incapable of this kind of innovation. What innovation? Autonomous vehicles? Volkswagen is working

>As a German citizen, it really bugs me that Volkswagen is incapable of this kind of innovation. What innovation? Autonomous vehicles? Volkswagen is working with Stanford researchers and Mobileye (you know, the people who helped build Tesla Autopilot): http://www.volkswagengroupamerica.com/autonomous.html http://www.volkswagengroupamerica.com/autonomous.html I mean, sure, if you don't leave the front page of HackerNews, you'd think that Tesla is literally inventing this stuff in real-time. But believe it or not there are lots of smart people and companies working on autonomous vehicles. They just don't market as well or as often as Tesla. And in some cases, yes, they're behind.