> It kind of reinforces that traditional car makers are never going to offer anything revolutionary to the car market. They're going to use the work of others to incrementally add features to cars that they think will increase sales. They won't take risks with technology.
I don't really want them to. They probably wouldn't be very good at the software.
What I want to see is software companies developing the software, which is their specialty. The large automakers can license that software and churn out millions of cars based on it, which is their specialty -- knowing how to consistently build millions of cars and avoid production snafus is the big advantage the big automakers have over the smaller manufacturers like Tesla.
I think that turn of events would get us the best possible software and the best possible cars running that software, and it's probably the only way that enough autonomous vehicles would be built for every driver to be able to own one.
I'm sure they write lots of code. But I've heard, from people who would know, that the code quality in cars is pretty bad. That's what I meant by not being good at it.
I don't really want them to. They probably wouldn't be very good at the software.
What I want to see is software companies developing the software, which is their specialty. The large automakers can license that software and churn out millions of cars based on it, which is their specialty -- knowing how to consistently build millions of cars and avoid production snafus is the big advantage the big automakers have over the smaller manufacturers like Tesla.
I think that turn of events would get us the best possible software and the best possible cars running that software, and it's probably the only way that enough autonomous vehicles would be built for every driver to be able to own one.