[ModernMech]

This is kind of what I thought when I was thinking about entering the space. Especially when I started looking around and interviewing at different places, they all seemed to be doing the same thing in the same way. They were just repeating the successes of the DARPA Urban challenge, and making the systems more polished and capable. They made impressive demos and then got bought up for impressive amounts. But like most things, this follows the 80/20 rule, so most of the work is still ahead of us. We're probably 80% of the way there, but that last 20% is going to take decades and probably some fundamental breakthroughs in sensors and AI. It's going to take a while.

It just seems like every automaker heard that autonomous is the next thing, so they went out shopping for autonomous startups without a clear sense of what they were after and how hard it was going to be to get there. I think a lot of them are going to be feeling buyer's remorse.