Detroit Is Stomping Silicon Valley in the Self-Driving Car Race

If you're betting on Silicon Valley stars like Google, Tesla, and Uber to free you from your horrorshow commute with autonomous driving technology, don't. That's the key takeaway from a new report that finds Ford--yes, the Detroit-based, 113-year-old giant--is winning the race to build the self-driving car, with General Motors running a close second. Meanwhile, Waymo--aka Google's driverless car effort--sits in sixth place, with Tesla in twelfth. Uber languishes in sixteenth, behind Honda and barely ahead of startup Nutonomy and China's Baidu. That may sound all kinds of wrong to anyone who has seen Uber, Waymo, and Tesla flaunt their tech, and regards Detroit's old guard as ill-prepared for the robotic future.