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BMW tests next-gen LiDAR to beat Tesla to Level 3 self-driving cars (www.zdnet.com)

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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.

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[–] Llamajockey@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always thought that the Tesla craze would fizzle as major car brands start investing in EVs and self driving tech. I'll take a Toyota, Volvo, Honda or BMW over a Tesla anytime.

[–] kupfakura@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Friendliestfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.world 1 points 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.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 3 points 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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

hopefully this will change soon, there's some nifty shit on the horizon from Toyota, hope they meet expectations. https://www.inverse.com/tech/toyota-electric-car-600-mile-range-ev