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Your entire comment is hinged on one person's opinion who works at Rolls Royce, basically a non-entity in the SDC world. Has he worked at Tesla, Waymo, Cruise,
by WhompingWindows 8y ago
Your entire comment is hinged on one person's opinion who works at Rolls Royce, basically a non-entity in the SDC world. Has he worked at Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, or any of the other actual players? What does he engineer specifically? What data is he basing his claims upon?
From every source I've read that's publicly available, SV IS eating the major automakers' lunch. An anecdotal claim with zero evidence isn't enough to convince me otherwise, nor should it convince you.
- karpodiem 8y agoThey flat out won't use the vehicles in the Midwest and New England when there is snow. The Waymo vehicles they said would appear in Detroit over the winter (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/alphabet-s-waymo-will-test-self-driving-cars-in-wintry-detroit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-26/alphabet-...) haven't materialized.
- bischofs 8y agoCruise is owned by GM, Tesla has a decent level 2 system but only sells ~100,000 cars a year, and waymo has zero technology in consumers hands at this point. Also most of the automakers have offices and research facilities in SV, with hundreds of engineers working in them. What lunch are they eating?
- SEJeff 8y agoTesla sold 90k cars in Q4 of last year. They sold 244,920 cars in 2018 and are now at a much higher rate of production than they were for the first 1/2 of the year. You’re off by quite a bit.
- bischofs 8y agoTesla sold that many in the last two quarters because it was trying to fill a massive backlog of orders. Also VW, Toyota and Nissan/Renault each sold over 10 million vehicles in 2017, so my point that they are not a major automaker still holds.