Untold Billions Are Being Lost In The Race To Set The Standard For A Self Driving Car

The race to field the first autonomous car will be a Darwinian exercise, with more than 50 major competitors reduced to a handful of winners over the next decade, according to a new study by consultant AlixPartners LLP.

“You’ve got 50 major players trying to develop autonomous software and you’ll probably get three or four of them who will win,” John Hoffecker, global vice chairman of the Southfield, Michigan-based firm, said in a speech Tuesday to the Automotive Press Association in Detroit. “There will be billions and billions of dollars lost in bets that were put in the wrong place.”

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TomM - 7/12/2017 5:29:14 PM

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According to some - GOD created our first modes of transportation - and being PERFECT and ALL KNOWING - failed to produce a lasting example that could win a race with an ICE car today.

IF - being perfect - even GOD fails often (IT supposedly created humans - and this group is proof that humans have flaws) = there is little chance that imperfect beings we are will ever get everything "Perfect"

TomM - 7/12/2017 5:29:14 PM

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MDarringer - 7/12/2017 5:35:55 PM

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There is no need to mock God and by extension believers in God. Keep your hatred and bigotry toward people of faith out of this. Like a true Liberal you are hatefully intolerant.

TomM - 7/12/2017 5:50:48 PM

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Actually I did mock any god(I mentioned no specific one among the thousands)- and In fact I have actually met three of them in person and therefore I know they exist - among the many thousands that supposedly exist as claimed by humans. I have just pointed out that "perfection" is elusive to all - whether they claim supernatural powers or not. I actually attended a seminary for two years - and I have tolerance for ALL people - regardless of how many gods they believe in - and which ones. It is those that claim theirs is the only one that are intolerant.

t_bone - 7/12/2017 9:18:19 PM

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I finally figured out what this self-driving stuff is all about...a way to quell the public need for more cars without investing a cent in infrastructure for more/wider/better roads.

Holydude - 8/4/2017 11:19:09 PM

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Any technology sufficiently advanced will seems like the work of God (Magic, Nature, blah, blah). Give humans another ten thousand years, I'm sure we'll be flying around creating worlds. To actually worship another just because that being is more powerful or more technologically superior is pure stupidity (then again, plenty of humans are stupid/insecured/Republican/etc.), the smarter move will be to plot the path to getting to that level ourselves!