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Sinofsky: Western automakers lost IP and capital in Chinese joint ventures
“And like, we met once with and so the car companies, if you just fast forward, they all are out of China now. These joint ventures, they could never get their money out. They lost all their IP, their manufacturer. It's just horrible to, like, Volkswagen, Ford,…”
Qasar Younis: Autonomous vehicles will cause a bloodbath among Tier 1 suppliers
“I think the real bloodbath in this ecosystem is not going to be at the manufacturer's level because consumers have some affiliation to, like, a Tesla vehicle or, like, a Mercedes-Benz, etc. It happens at the tier ones, but where there's that destruction, there…”
Paulus: Google, Volvo, and Mercedes accept self-driving liability
“Google Volvo and Mercedes have all said that for their cars, while they're in assault driving mode, they have the liability”
Mercedes prohibited Casey Neistat from showing his car crashes in sponsored videos
“They wouldn't let me put, when I wrecked the Mercedes, either time, any of the times in the video. And one night when I wrecked one, I had to cover it in a tarp before I could get it towed away.”
Neistat: Mercedes-Benz four-video campaign was pitched on a one-page brief
“I remember it was a one-page brief that I sent them for a four-video campaign that lasted five months long that was, like, really, really well received by my audience, and I think they were very happy with the impact that the videos had because it was really h…”