| > Cruise and Waymo have fully autonomous cars deployed in SF and are scaling up. Is that it? SF only? After billions invested? There is a laundry list of those that tried and failed especially with burning an insurmountable amount of VC money even with billions of their own money. Lyft: Scrapped and sold their self-driving project. [0] Uber: Scrapped their robot-taxi project and sold it off. [1] Zoox: Once valued at $3BN, acquired by Amazon for $1BN after nearly going bankrupt and is still using specialised cars for self driving only in SF. [2] Cruise: Acquired by GM and still using specialised cars for self driving in SF [3] Drive.ai: Ran out of money and almost bankrupt and acquired by Apple. [4] No where to be found on the roads. Waymo: Same situation as Cruise, but Google keeping them alive. Comma has lasted longer than these over-valued companies and is already in lots of consumer grade vehicles beyond SF today and not in specialised cars and taxis unlike Cruise and Waymo who are still stuck in SF [5]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/26/business/stock-marke... [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944337751/uber-sells-its-auto... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/amazon-buys-self-driving-tec... [3] https://fortune.com/2016/03/11/gm-buying-self-driving-tech-s... [4] https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/25/self-driving-startup-drive... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/cruise-waymo-near-approval... |