Autonomous will remain a very large fragmented industry, like OEMs

Autonomous will remain a very large fragmented industry, like OEMs | there's no reason to think that this won't be a very very big fragmented industry just like the OEM, the car manufacturing business is a very large fragmented industry.

Watch events: Waymo 1M rides/wk (end-2026); Tesla Robotaxi scaling; NHTSA AV rules

there's no reason to think that this won't be a very very big fragmented industry just like the OEM, the car manufacturing business is a very large fragmented industry.

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