Self Driving Cars are going to be on the road pretty soon. Some say in 2020 some say in 2025. Everyone agrees it is a matter of when, not “if”


Uber, Waymo, Lift and Cruise ( GM) have all decided to make variants of the same technology and variants of the same business strategy.

A famous Billionaire decided to save instead $10-15K per produced car and has a completely different business strategy. $10-15K represent 30-40% of the car cost.  It is also the 40% time to amort the initial capital equipment purchase in case you use the cars in a Business service fleet. 

 

The Billionaire is Elon Musk, if it was not clear, and the one product decision  that saves this much money is to get read off a vestigial apparatus called LIDAR. 

 

While all the other competitors have criticized Elon Musk, recent research at the Cornell University has proven he could be right.

So Elon Musk has a product that costs 30% less to make and has gained over 1 Billion Miles experience (while all competitors are around 1 million). Who do you think has a competitive advantage in this space?  

 

Why Elon Musk could make such an adventurous product decision?

Simple, because he is not a wishy washy high level manager. He understands the basic of AI and computer vision and understands that the $10K LIDAR is a redundant technology.

 

For a second imagine if you can make similar impactful decisions in your company? What will happen to your career and your income? 

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