Actually, the beta approach works just fine in industry, better than consumers. Most companies start out with buying/leasing a few trucks for evaluations. They then make their purchase decision based on evaluations. Even Mercedes is going the beta approach here.

They can significantly reduce operating costs by going electric, less fuel and less maintenance. And in time remove the driver too.

Vendor reputation depends on how they deal with relationships with other vendors.

I suggest getting a dictionary and looking up the definition of vendor.

I am sorry if your intelligence is not on par with holding a proper conversation. With every statement all you do is throw out childish insults and show your lack of understanding and experience on the topic.

The problem is Mobile Eye is a rather small company, and does not have the resources to handle both. So they chose to focus on standardization across vendors, and do not have the resources to make custom solutions. If you look at their product schedule, their current hardware is outdated, and their next generation…

Vendor reputation is not the same thing as consumer perception reputation. Vendors are not stupid, they don’t care what the media puts out, they do their own internal testing and judge by reputation with other vendors.

You clearly have never ran a business in your life. So just stop before you embarrass yourself any further.

Being more collaborative is not that simple, to do so you need to standardize your product. So that is it compatible cross vendor. But in the case of Tesla, they don’t care about compatibility of cross vendors, they care about pushing the envelop. So Mobile Eye’s solution as far as hardware was simply falling behind…

Sorry but you are clueless. The reputations that B2B companies seek is different than the reputations B2C companies seek. A B2C company is more sensitive to day to day reputation because it can impact their sales. A B2B company does not care as much about that sort of reputation and is more interested in long term…

Judging that Tesla hired Jim Keller back in January, month prior to this crash. It is pretty obvious Tesla was planning to move away from Mobile Eye for quite some time. Even in previous statements dating to a year ago, Tesla hinted plans to move away from Mobile Eye.

That is nonsense. Mobile Eye largest sales is to companies, not consumers. How their tech is used is irrelevant to them.

Tesla autopilot clearly says its not for use in cross traffic either. While Tesla autopilot does use custom firmware and supports many features MobileEye does not.

The answer is pretty simple. At first Tesla started out with using their hardware and custom software/firmware. But there comes a point where hardware becomes a limiting factor, so Tesla wants better hardware, hence they are building their own in-house.

Again, there is a difference between programming in which is simple. And actually enforcing that programming via autopilot system as it introduces risks. (Like a single street error can be the difference between going 60 in a 25 mile zone)

There is a difference between using an app like waze for suggestions and actually having the car abide by that. The issue here is not capability but reliability.

Sorry, I thought you were responding to a different comment of mine.

It does to an extent, it reads road signs and adjusts. But if say a truck blocks the road sign and it does not see it, it won’t adjust. The owner can also disable that and just set his own.

Tesla is the only major electric car manufacturer who only sells electric cars. Ford, Toyota, Chevy and etc could care less if you opt for their ICE cars instead of their electric cars, they would probably prefer it. Tesla though is in a different boat.

In the case of Utah, even more so. Because Utah constitution Article XII section 20 says: