{"id":305404,"date":"2021-07-22T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-tech-bet-on-robotaxis-they-shouldnt-have\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:43:18","slug":"big-tech-bet-on-robotaxis-they-shouldnt-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-tech-bet-on-robotaxis-they-shouldnt-have\/","title":{"rendered":"#Big Tech bet on robotaxis \u2014 they shouldn’t have"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Big Tech bet on robotaxis \u2014 they shouldn’t have<\/strong>”
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Tech giants such as Google, App<\/a>le, and Amazon had promised that by now we\u2019d be casually riding their robotaxi fleets on a large scale. Of course, that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Excessively high costs, prolonged testing periods, and safety issues have undoubtedly played their part. But a new threat has emerged as well, as journalist\u00a0Patrick McGee<\/span>\u00a0illustrated in the Financial Times<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

In a very insightful piece, McGee pointed to the rapidly developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which, according to experts, might show a better path to fully driverless tech.<\/p>\n

The ADAS players are following a bottom-up approach, gradually scaling up the levels of automation.<\/p>\n

They believe that the Level 1 and 2 partial automation they have currently achieved can evolve into the sought-after Level 4 and 5 (where a vehicle can truly drive itself), and at a much lower cost.<\/p>\n

The mindset behind robotaxis comes in direct opposition, McGee explains. The companies stand for a \u201cmoonshot\u201d approach and the plan is either to directly offer full autonomy or nothing at all.<\/p>\n

The risk here is that the robotaxi players don\u2019t really have a plan B, which means that, if they fail, they are left completely high and dry.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have dramatically improved, the companies behind them are already offering successful products, and the ADAS market skyrocketed to $25 billion last year.<\/p>\n

So the big question, as McGee notes, isn\u2019t whether autonomy will be reached, but by which method \u2014 and by extension, by whom.<\/p>\n

While the robotaxi hopefuls maintain that the chasm from Level 2 to Level 4 is too big to bridge, the evolutional leap of ADAS might come faster than they can directly unlock full autonomy.<\/p>\n

McGees\u2019 piece offers an in-depth analysis of the two competing industries with insightful argumentation and experts\u2019 perspectives. The article is definitely worth a read if you\u2019re interested in the future of fully autonomous driving. You can find it here on the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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