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Other motor companies are also investing in autonomous driving. It's just the nature of vehicles, they get more complex all the time. Toyota has announced that
by forgetfulness 4y ago
Other motor companies are also investing in autonomous driving. It's just the nature of vehicles, they get more complex all the time. Toyota has announced that it will have autonomous driving by 2025. I'm not sure I believe it, but if the criteria is being working on it, would we be classifying Toyota as a tech company?
Vehicles have air conditioning but that doesn't make motor companies appliance companies or HVAC companies either.
- grumple 4y agoI wasn't advocating for a position, just explaining that they clearly lead (or led) in two big technological advances. It depends on what the company's core value proposition is. Toyota's is clearly a car company. Tesla is now more of a car company, but there was a time when they had no or few cars but still had the battery and driving tech. Their valuation and promise was of bringing a new technology to the world, rather than a physical product.
- robertlagrant 4y agoMany traditional shops are investing in online shopping as well as Amazon. Does that make them all tech companies?
- forgetfulness 4y agoIf Amazon didn't make so much of its money off AWS, they wouldn't be tech companies any more than Walmart