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The comma business model is built upon a car interface created by manufacturers for their own purposes. Those manufacturers are working on their own autonomous
by elif 5y ago
The comma business model is built upon a car interface created by manufacturers for their own purposes.
Those manufacturers are working on their own autonomous driving programs in various stages.
None of those manufacturers want crash statistics for their vehicles being driven autonomously.
Comma is clearly the unwanted guest in the room... the only positive outcome for them is acquihire when one of the manufacturers realizes how hard FSD is. Their business model standing alone is built of kerosene and straw.
- md2020 5y agoTheir business model, which has resulted in a profitable business with actual customers who love their product, is built of kerosene and straw?? As opposed to every other self-driving company, of which none are profitable or have customers and all rely on crazy amounts of VC funding.
- stavros 5y agoI feel simultaneously amused and dismayed at your "their business model is doomed" analysis that somehow fails to account for the business model of "sell people something they want at a profitable price". I want to say "peak HN" but that would be doing the HN community a disservice, so I'll say "peak 'peak HN'" instead.
- tenuousemphasis 5y agoI think the point is that their business model is in conflict with that of the auto manufacturers, and that their business model depends on the auto manufacturers continuing to allow theirs to exist.