Always great to start the new year at CES, and once again
we're talking about autonomous driving. Where in recent years
the automotive industry was rightly focused on electrification,
key players, such as Waymo, have been aggressively pushing the
ball forward on autonomous vehicle development, with Waymo
now conducting more than 150,000 driverless pay trips per week
across Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Then, during the kickoff address for CES on Monday evening,
Nvidia's CEO predicted that autonomous vehicles will be the
first multitrillion dollar robotics industry.
He further announced an exciting partnership between NVIDIA and
Toyota to help Toyota develop their nextgen AV.
The future is here, and while it's increasingly clear from an
autonomous vehicle technology standpoint who the winners will
be, the big question is: When will the broader ecosystem
reveal itself?
Fleet operations, fleet management,
mobility platforms.
There's still a lot of work to be done, but when we get this
right, we will finally deliver against the promise of cleaner,
safer, more accessible mobility.