[joaonunesk]

The problem is that most of the established car companies are not thinking in the future. They become accommodate with the amount of cash they have on the hand, and they do not pursue innovation.

Currently, Tesla is the only one who is delivering practical innovation and success!

[icebraining]

Car companies have been developing this technology for longer than Tesla has even existed.

Here's Mercedes in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RFzC_G5BA

[thesimon]

But their current technology is not called "autopilot" so they are clearly way behind!1

[calvinbhai]

True. But they add the hardware only if you pay for it up front.

Tesla has the hardware in every car it sells, and will be mining super useful data with all these sensors, and tweaking it's software (machine learning based on real use cases for a year) before it puts it out to the public! The scale of data mining that can be done with Tesla's approach is near impossible with other cars (if they continue to sell the cars with and without the sensory hardware)

[forgetsusername]

How hard do you think adding sensors to vehicles is to accomplish if the big players decide it's valuable? This is commodity hardware. And if/when they do, they will be gathering far more data that Tesla, by virtue of the massive number of vehicles on the road.

Again, Tesla may very well do it better than anyone else, but it's a bit early to talk like they've won anything here.

[petra]

Well, Tesla's strategy is extremly risky. Most companies, and maybe even most startup cannot handle that kind of risk.