Wrong
Personally I think he's wrong, and I'm an engineer not a compsci. There is no doubt that the engineering that goes in to a modern car is immense, but fundamentally it's not new. Manufacturing techniques, suspension design, NVH, engine development etc - all vast &refined topics in their own right but all mature with lots of existing designs to work from and knowledgable people to poach. Self driving tech by comparison is still in its infancy, and a huge amount of the work done so far is very secret and would have to be repeated by anyone wishing to enter the fray.
I'll be surprised if any of the major car manufacturers get to where Google is *now* in 5 years time in terms of how advanced their self driving systems are.
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