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It's nice to see some different perspectives in the race to autonomous cars. I do wish the axes of the graph were a bit different. Possibly "Technology Adv vs.
by BoiledCabbage 10y ago
It's nice to see some different perspectives in the race to autonomous cars.
I do wish the axes of the graph were a bit different. Possibly "Technology Adv vs. Business Adv".
They had a great insight on how some companies may able to deliver a working product to the masses much easier, while others may be ahead on tech but may have trouble on scaling or production or rolling out a way to make it profitable and grow. I think that was a major insight of the article those two dimensions, but the graph picks two other dimensions to compare companies on.
For example Waymo is listed as being "way out in front of everyone" in tech. I'd expect to seem them at the extreme of on of the two axes.
They don't have the existing business of uber, nor the production line of ford, so I'd expect them lower in the other axis.
That graph I feel would've been a better presentation of the data. Now I'm just left wondering how their huge tech advantage leaves them in the "middle" of each axis.
- apahwa 10y agoproduction line: they are building on third party cars, Chrysler definitely has a strong production line. existing business: Google maps is already taking some share of the initial ride request by providing users a way to compare prices between Lyft and Uber and doing lead gen. they now have plenty of data points to know what price points they need to hit in order to complete and they can easily add in Waymo in front. they will benefit from all the marketing dollars Uber and Lyft burn through.