[propogandist]

The market research firm that put this together is in the business of selling expensive reports and custom consulting engagements to auto manufacturers to aid with automotive strategy.

They have a business interest to make lesser known firms appear to be the biggest threat as it makes their services more valuable. Any manufacturer can benchmark self-driving performance on the widely available Tesla, but it will be difficult to know what all the other firms are doing as they're all, comparatively, niche players.

They fact they don't even have Comma.ai on the list suggests this is a garbage tier ranking study.

[ahahahahah]

> They fact they don't even have Comma.ai on the list suggests this is a garbage tier ranking study.

They also don't have my OS self-driving hardware and software plans. Comma.ai is a cool toy, but it's a joke in the world of real self-driving.

> make lesser known firms appear to be the biggest threat

Lesser known firms like their top four Waymo, Baidu, Mobileye and Cruise? Yeah, okay.

[propogandist]

> Waymo, Baidu, Mobileye and Cruise?

2 of the 4 don't have anything available for mass market, and they are money losing ventures.

Mobileye is the only player that matters of the lot, given Baidu will effectively be limited to CCP friendly markets.

The ability to take a 1.5K "toy" to make a standard car have partially autonomous is also pretty nice. A great toy that is pushing the industry forward to make sure self-driving is available at reasonable prices vs $15K premium for a "beta" software that will never make it to production.

[daveguy]

I dunno. Have you seen the video of the electric cars trying to park?

Edit: here it is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA