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While I want autonomous cars to become available if for no other reason than to allow my elderly parents to continue using a car, I have serious doubts that it’
by decafninja 3y ago
While I want autonomous cars to become available if for no other reason than to allow my elderly parents to continue using a car, I have serious doubts that it’s going to come about during their lifetime.
Having said that, I’m fully prepared to become their chauffeur at some point in the future. I’ve started looking at bigger vehicles I previously would not have been interested in so that I can drive them around in comfort and luxury.
Also curious about what are the Chinese EV manufacturers doing in this space? Are they putting much effort into autonomous driving, are they mainly focused on just making a plain old good electric car?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoChinese OEMs are putting a moderate amount of work into the space at L2-L3, as those offerings are rapidly becoming mandatory features for flagship product lines. There are Chinese teams working on L4, but it's difficult to get an good sense of their maturity right now.
- decafninja 3y agoI could be wrong, but seems only American and European (or just the Germans?) are aggressively pursuing L4+ while Asia (China/Japan/Korea) is focusing more on L2/3 for now?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoNo, there are a large number of Chinese companies that have active L4 efforts. Xpeng, Baidu, weride, pony.ai, etc. They tend to also have partial autonomy (L2-L3) efforts because that's what the Chinese OEMs want to invest in.
- neom 3y agoBest read I can usually get is from wheelsboy https://www.youtube.com/@Wheelsboy/videos https://www.youtube.com/@Wheelsboy/videos Some of the stuff he test drives is pretty wild to me, very curious how the next 5-10 years are going to look.