Self-Driving Tech Is Becoming a Game of Partnerships

Building a self-driving car was never going to be easy. But Karl Iagnemma says he didn't expect it to be this hard. "Vehicles are these massively complex systems, and to [build self-driving cars], we need to integrate them with another very complex system and do it in a way that's reliable and cost-optimized. It's really, really hard," says Iagnemma, the president and CEO of a joint venture formed in March between South Korea's Hyundai and self-driving startup Aptiv. "I think that's one of the things that most players in the industry underappreciated, myself included."