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Other Automakers Could License Tesla Autopilot Software
According to Business Insider, Elon Musk is having discussions about selling Autopilot to automotive competitors. Some experts believe one or more automakers will actually license Autopilot given the challenges of developing competitive driver assistance systems. Most...
GM Leads All Legacy Automotive in Push to Zero-Emission Future
A theory of disruptive innovation was described in a 1995 Harvard Business Review article. Companies often fail to adapt to new technologies or changing market conditions. An example is Blockbuster failing to respond to a video streaming strategy pioneered by Netflix....
Growing Doubt About Tesla Full-Self-Driving
Earlier this week, the Mobileye CEO cast doubts on Elon Musk’s approach to developing self-driving vehicles. Today, the CEO of Google’s Waymo self-driving division chimed-in as well. John Krafcik asserts that Tesla is only developing a very good driver assistance...
Investors are Getting Excited about General Motors Stock
That's the first topic in a Wall Steet Journal article today highlighting that GM (and Ford) is having its biggest stock gains in years. While Wall Street is just taking notice of GM, some of us have long noticed the positive performance of the company's core business...
Mobileye CEO Says Elon Musk Approach to Self-Driving is All Wrong
Recently the Mobileye CEO, Amnon Shashua, described Tesla’s method of developing self-driving vehicles as a brute force method of gradual beta test improvements that might run into a glass ceiling. Shashua believes Tesla essentially records the wrong part of...
The Top 7 Companies that will Lead the Electric Vehicle and Autonomous Driving World
taGMan That's the acronym I use to remember the 7 companies that will lead others in the drive to a future world full of electric vehicles, self-driving capability and mobility solutions. Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, General Motors While Tesla and...
The Tesla Future Factory
During Tesla's Battery Day presentation in September of last year, Elon Musk spent a few minutes discussing what might become one of the company's most important core competencies. It has nothing to do with battery technology. It's Manufacturing! In Musk's effort to...
General Motors Will Effectively Compete with Tesla
GM stock is at an all-time high. Wall Street is beginning to understand what I’ve been suggesting for some time: GM will become a substantial EV, autonomous technology and mobility solutions company that will compete with the best in the world. The announcement by the...