Jia Yueting's Sprawling Self-Driving Car Empire

Google may have the most self-driving cars on the road and Ford might be testing its driverless vehicles in the most extreme conditions, but Jia Yueting certainly has the most autonomous auto brands under his belt. The Chinese Internet billionaire owns self-driving EV startup Faraday Future, has a big investment in its stealthy rival Atieva, and has partnered with Aston Martin to build a third EV. Now, Jia just revealed yet another self-driving car, under the LeEco brand. At a glitzy event in Beijing, Jia and Ding Lei, the man in charge of LeEco's car business, demonstrated a self-driving concept car called the LeSEE. LeEco (previously LeTV) is Jia's first firm; it was once known as the Netflix of China, but is now diversifying into smartphones, televisions, and original video content. During presentations that veered from enthusiastic to accusatory to emotional (Ding at one point said, "We have gone through the process of being laughed at, to being judged, to being trusted by people"), they managed to make some concrete claims.