by Randall McAdory | Sep 8, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, Nikola, Tesla
While Tesla gets lots of attention, GM has been building electric and autonomous vehicle capabilities over many years that seem to be missed by many. Now that the GM-Nikola partnership has been announced, maybe GM will begin to get some investor credit for its...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 31, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles
Forbes has a very interesting article describing the “peace dividend” concept. The peace dividend was first established during the smartphone wars which drove significant technologies in mobile computing capability. Cameras, GPS, batteries, sensors,...
by Randall McAdory | Jul 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
Elon Musk once described Tesla’s lead over the competition in developing self-driving cars during an interview using the tennis analogy of “game, set, match.” My interpretation was that Musk believes Tesla’s development was so far ahead of...
by Randall McAdory | Jun 27, 2020 | Amazon, Autonomous Vehicles, Ford, General Motors, Rivian, Tesla, Waymo
Recently I wrote that TaaS development seemed to be a three-horse race between GM, Tesla, and Waymo. Now it seems Amazon also has entered the autonomous vehicle race, if not for TaaS business reasons, then surely for reducing one of the company’s largest expenses: its...
by Randall McAdory | Jun 25, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Geely, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waymo
In January, GM announced its Cruise Origin as a vehicle that’s designed to be shared, autonomous and electric. Origin is the General Motors vehicle to be used primarily in transportation-as-a-service business solutions. Not to be left behind, today, Waymo and...
by Randall McAdory | Jun 19, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Software
Elon Musk has been quoted that he doesn’t believe traditional automakers will beat Tesla in the development of autonomous electric vehicles because the solution is mostly a software problem. He believes traditional auto is not very good at software. In a recent Clean...
