Tuesday, July 24, 2018

A self-driving car built from the ground up. Are Tesla and Uber F*cked?

This article in Bloomberg Businessweek on Friday piqued my interest: it's on Zoox, a self-driving car startup that designed and built its car from the ground up to be autonomous, without just bolting on hardware to a standard car.

It's designed without a steering wheel and to look the same from either end so it can go into a parking space one way and out the other way.

The review in the article is effusive on the smoothness of the ride ... the Zoox car prototype even "glided to a stop" ...

The prototypes are named VH1, VH2, etc. ... VH standing for "vaporware horseshit" in a nod to critics of the company.

Interesting times we live in!

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