That video (or at least its transcript) isn't very useful.
Nio has built a self-driving supercar. A real race car, it's doing quite well on empty tracks. Even Road and Track is impressed.[1] It costs $1.5 million. Each. They've built about 9 cars.
This is a China-based startup. Founder is William Li. Crunchbase doesn't know anything about him. Anyone have more info? Baidu is the lead investor. $600M invested so far. About 2,000 employees. This is the highest-funded self-driving startup.
It's not clear where they go from here, but they have a lot of resources.
The article linked does not mention "autonomous" or "self driving". It just looks like an electric powered supercar (which sets a mighty impressive lap time)?
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadNio has built a self-driving supercar. A real race car, it's doing quite well on empty tracks. Even Road and Track is impressed.[1] It costs $1.5 million. Each. They've built about 9 cars.
This is a China-based startup. Founder is William Li. Crunchbase doesn't know anything about him. Anyone have more info? Baidu is the lead investor. $600M invested so far. About 2,000 employees. This is the highest-funded self-driving startup.
It's not clear where they go from here, but they have a lot of resources.
[1] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/videos/a33498/watch-the...