autonomy

11 statements across 7 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2017 by Benedict Evans · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 5, 2017 positive
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Evans Compares Maturity of AI, Crypto, Mixed Reality, and Autonomy
“For autonomy, we are still very much down in the muddy hole in the ground, digging foundations. Mixed reality is just sort of moving out of that to the point that you can throw the frame up. For cryptocurrency, the frame has gone up. We're just trying to work …”
Benedict Evans Dec 5, 2017 ▶ 23:46 10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Frank Chen: Autonomous ride service costs will approach private car ownership
“At some point when the autonomy comes into the equation, then it might get close to the Price at which you sort of own and operate and drive your own car.”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:39 a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
Jan 2, 2019
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Frank Chen: Autonomous driving algorithms calculate safe paths, not ethical tradeoffs
“If you look at the current crop of machine learning algorithms that drive autonomy, they're not making high level decisions like, let's calculate the life expectancy of the people that I'm about to wipe out. They're not doing that. They're looking at, there's …”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:10 a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
Feb 26, 2019 neutral
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Younis: Autonomous technology could become a commodity by 2029
“So if we look back at 2017, the autonomy doesn't look that much different, the players are generally the same, but I think 10 years from now, autonomy will be very, very different, insofar as it might even be a commodity.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 2:46 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 bullish
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Ludwig: Automotive sensor commodification for autonomy is just beginning
“And today we're just at the beginning of that for automotive sensors and autonomy.”
Peter Ludwig Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 3:32 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 positive
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Younis: AVs require combining Silicon Valley software with traditional car manufacturing
“I think there's no path to autonomy that doesn't go through Silicon Valley and Detroit.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 29:58 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Younis: Bosch became relevant in Silicon Valley due to autonomous vehicles
“When I worked at Bosch before, Bosch was unknown just a few years ago, and it's finally now, because of autonomy, Bosch is like a relevant name.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 19:55 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 6, 2023 positive
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Brose: Autonomous systems scale military power by flipping personnel-to-machine ratios
“We've had a military where you've had large numbers of people required to operate small numbers of things. And that model doesn't scale. And when you're competing against you know, Countries that are, you know, multiple times your population, potentially soon …”
Christian Brose Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 2:21 Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
Dec 12, 2024 bullish
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Reshoring US manufacturing is impossible without high reliance on autonomy
“And I don't think that's gonna happen With the way sort of labor economics work globally, if a huge part of the way we manufacture in the future is not driven by autonomy.”
Erin Price-Wright Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 10:49 Jobs of the Future: Where Hardware Meets Software
Apr 14, 2025 bullish
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Yudis: The next decade will bring widespread production and monetization of autonomy
“So now, I think we're at that threshold where, you know, the next decade, Is very much the productionization and proliferation of autonomy. And you can say, broadly speaking, the intelligent vehicle. And it is also the monetization of this technology.”
Qasar Younis Apr 14, 2025 ▶ 4:13 Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
Apr 14, 2025 bullish
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Yudis: Widespread autonomous vehicle adoption will occur within 5 to 7 years
“So that's all gonna happen in the next five, seven years. You don't need to go on five autonomy rides to be kind of blown away. And so I think all of that, that, all of that is coming.”
Qasar Younis Apr 14, 2025 ▶ 35:53 Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
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