Tesla's autonomous vehicle tech has been perennially stuck at Level 2 self-driving, as BMW and other rivals try to leapfrog to Level 3.

BMW tests next-gen LiDAR to beat Tesla to Level 3 self-driving cars::Tesla’s autonomous vehicle tech has been perennially stuck at Level 2 self-driving, as BMW and other rivals try to leapfrog to Level 3.

  • kupfakura@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Sadly Toyota is struggling to make a decent EV years after leading in hybrids. BMW on the other hand has insane efficiency

    • Friendliestfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Still bizarre to me that Toyota had such a lead with hybrids and then went in on hydrogen and missed the boat on evs

      • AEsheron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        From what I’ve heard, they have a history of letting other companies trailblaze, and then they come in to refine and perfect tech afterward. They recently tried to be the trailblazer and bet on a losing tech. Hopefully now they are refining the ev game and will come out with something above and beyond what we’ve seen so far as per their old MO.

      • buzziebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They’ve made some incredible solid state battery leaps recently. For Japan hydrogen actually makes way more sense than a pure EV play too due to the way their grid(s) is set up and their power generation capacity. It’s their home market too so they are going to prioritise that.

        • maniajack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The solid state press releases Toyota releases every once in a while do look incredible. It would be nice for them to demonstrate and deliver it though because I hope it’s not vaporware.