Can Tesla Beat Google and Uber to Self-Driving Car Dominance? The Motley Fool

Follow me on LinkedIn for writing tips, professional guidance, and occasional entertainment. If you've got ideas for coverage, feedback on my work, or would like to be interviewed for a future article, please reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. That's all an engineer from one major Japanese automaker could say after seeing the central control unit for Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) Autopilot technology, extracted during Nikkei Business Publications' recent teardown (an investigative disassembling of tech hardware) of a Model 3. Japanese automakers might not be able to match Tesla's self-driving technological achievements, but that doesn't make Tesla the leader by default. Other companies, most notably Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Waymo unit, have been hard at work on self-driving vehicle technology for years. And while Elon Musk may have the world's attention, Tesla simply doesn't possess as many resources to throw at the self-driving problem as the techies in Mountain View, California.