Navigant considers GM to be the driverless car leader due to both its software sophistication and its ability to mass produce the cars (and solid state LIDAR) at scale.
A new report from the consulting firm Navigant ranks the 19 major players in the emerging driverless car industry. Navigant analysts see GM and Waymo as the clear industry leaders, while Tesla is dead last, alongside Apple.
"The Autopilot system on current products has stagnated and, in many respects, regressed since it was first launched in late 2015," Navigant writes. "More than one year after launching V2, Autopilot still lacks some of the functionality of the original, and there are many anecdotal reports from owners of unpredictable behavior."
"In a May 2017 TED talk, Musk claimed the systems being built today would be Level 5 capable"—that is, suitable for full self-driving with just a software update—"by 2019," Navigant notes. "However, this is unlikely to ever be achievable."
"Current Tesla hardware lacks the ability to keep sensors clean and unobscured in poor weather as well as most of the redundant systems needed for fully automated driving," Navigant writes. It follows that with more shortcomings and roadblocks in front of Tesla.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/0...018/01/why-analysts-put-gm-and-waymo-far-ahead-of-tesla-in-driverless-car-race/
Seems like GM has come out of the AV saloon guns blazing and catapulted itself from nowhere to the leader in record time by spending some serious billions on Cruise Automation and the solid state LIDAR manufacturer Strobe. Coupled with its ability to engineer and mass produce cars, it enjoys a unique advantage over the others. And it's not letting grass grow under the tires.
A new report from the consulting firm Navigant ranks the 19 major players in the emerging driverless car industry. Navigant analysts see GM and Waymo as the clear industry leaders, while Tesla is dead last, alongside Apple.
"The Autopilot system on current products has stagnated and, in many respects, regressed since it was first launched in late 2015," Navigant writes. "More than one year after launching V2, Autopilot still lacks some of the functionality of the original, and there are many anecdotal reports from owners of unpredictable behavior."
"In a May 2017 TED talk, Musk claimed the systems being built today would be Level 5 capable"—that is, suitable for full self-driving with just a software update—"by 2019," Navigant notes. "However, this is unlikely to ever be achievable."
"Current Tesla hardware lacks the ability to keep sensors clean and unobscured in poor weather as well as most of the redundant systems needed for fully automated driving," Navigant writes. It follows that with more shortcomings and roadblocks in front of Tesla.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/0...018/01/why-analysts-put-gm-and-waymo-far-ahead-of-tesla-in-driverless-car-race/
Seems like GM has come out of the AV saloon guns blazing and catapulted itself from nowhere to the leader in record time by spending some serious billions on Cruise Automation and the solid state LIDAR manufacturer Strobe. Coupled with its ability to engineer and mass produce cars, it enjoys a unique advantage over the others. And it's not letting grass grow under the tires.
