The people working on fully autonomous driving are unlikely to be of much help for standard driver assistance packages, as they use completely different technol

The people working on fully autonomous driving are unlikely to be of much help for standard driver assistance packages, as they use completely different technology stacks. The approach Tesla is taking, which is definitely driver assist despite their baseless claims to the contrary, is wildly different from the approach Waymo is taking. You can get the sensor suite for a driver assist system for hundreds of dollars. The sensor and compute package for a truly driverless vehicle (of course, a truly driverless vehicle doesn't yet exist and prices will come down with time and scale) cost more than a luxury car itself. For instance, everybody seems to agree that lidar is the most important sensor for a truly driverless vehicle. And everybody agrees it's too expensive to sell to consumers. They're orthogonal approaches to similar problems with surprisingly little overlap. It's like comparing game development for a 2D sidescroller on the Nintendo Switch with a 3D first person shooter for a gaming PC. They're completely different technologically, even though at the end they're both making games.