by Randall McAdory | Jan 23, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Mobileye, Tesla, Waymo
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...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 20, 2021 | Amazon, Apple, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, Microsoft, Nvidia, TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Waymo
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...
by Randall McAdory | Dec 29, 2020 | Amazon, Apple, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, GM Cruise Automation, Microsoft, Rivian, TaaS, Tesla, Volkswagen, Waymo
Why is it that the Tesla fan believes all legacy automakers are doomed to fail in the race toward an electric and autonomous vehicle future? To the Fan Boys, a winner-take-all, zero-sum-game of Tesla winning while all others lose is the future. TI don not believe...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 14, 2020 | Amazon, Electric Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Uber, Waymo
During a Prof G Show podcast (by Scott Galloway), NYU professor, Arun Sundararajan, gave his opinion around which entities will drive the mobility space (a space that I’m defining as transportation-as-a-service with self driving vehicles). Sundararajan believes...
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...