The competition in this space is great but I can't help but wonder what would happen if instead all these companies pooled their resources and went after the goal collectively. There is so much duplication going on and the paths do not seem to me - as an outsider - to be all that divergent, which is usually a pre-condition for having a lot of independent efforts one of which will succeed.
It's as if everybody wants to be the one to exclusively own the tech. Imagine every car manufacturer having a completely different take on what a car should be like from a safety perspective. We have standards bodies for a reason and given the fact that there are plenty of lives at stake here maybe for once the monetary angle should get a back-seat (pun intended) to safety and a joint effort is called for. That would also stop people dying because operators of unsafe software are trying to make up for their late entry by 'moving fast and breaking things' where in this case the things are pedestrians, cyclists and other traffic participants who have no share in the monetary gain.
It's as if everybody wants to be the one to exclusively own the tech. Imagine every car manufacturer having a completely different take on what a car should be like from a safety perspective. We have standards bodies for a reason and given the fact that there are plenty of lives at stake here maybe for once the monetary angle should get a back-seat (pun intended) to safety and a joint effort is called for. That would also stop people dying because operators of unsafe software are trying to make up for their late entry by 'moving fast and breaking things' where in this case the things are pedestrians, cyclists and other traffic participants who have no share in the monetary gain.