Tesla was the first premium supplier in the EV market. All market players are trying to shape the future, creating a game changer, which Tesla certainly did. But now, in the next round of the game (FULLY autonomous driving), Tesla is not taking the lead anymore.
Waymo, the Google company developing a fully autonomous driver technology, has now partnered with Jaguar and unveiled the self-driving Jaguar i-Pace. The plan is to have the Waymo’s driverless transportation service available with the i-Pace to the public this year in Phoenix, Arizona. The Waymo Jaguar cooperation has the potential for a production of up to 20.000 self-driving i-Pace cars in the first two years of production.
The new Jaguar i-Pace seems to be even more powerful than two variants of a Tesla Model X, at least according to a challenge sponsored by Jaguar. 🙂
With all the fascination of a game-changer in self-driving technology, let us hope that governments will carefully control and restrict self-driving technology to make sure that the self-driving computer can not unlash the full power of this car.