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Interesting. These guys are supposedly launching their ride hailing fleet this year on public roads. "unorthodox entrepreneurial zeal of Kentley-Klay, an Aust
by anon102010 6y ago
Interesting.
These guys are supposedly launching their ride hailing fleet this year on public roads.
"unorthodox entrepreneurial zeal of Kentley-Klay, an Australian native with no prior automotive experience." was the key mover on all this and "touted Zoox’s strategy of building its own vehicles for full autonomy as wiser than the standard approach of retrofitting existing cars that Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and others are taking."
Their CEO did attack silicon valley for choosing the path of fear "at the expense of profound progress for the Universe."
Heady stuff! Will be very interesting to see their launch if all this talk pans out! Full new vehicle assembly from scratch PLUS autonomy! Very impressive.
- m0zg 6y agoHey, he has a dash in his last name. He must be, like, really smart and sophisticated.
- pedalpete 6y agoAnd yet, everything you seen on the street from Zoox is a retro-fitted Toyota. I don't think their own vehicle ever made it onto the street.
- anon102010 6y agoThat's kind of funny. Have they decided where they will be building their cars? Normally those types of announcements (new car plant) will get big coverage.
- Gatsky 6y agoApparently he added the ‘Klay’ to his name because he wanted to add a ‘maker’ element to it. I mean, this a bad prognostic sign if there ever was one in an engineering company.
- bosie 6y agowhat do you mean by 'add a maker element to it'?
- orbifold 6y agoKlay and Clay sound similar?
- kalyanganjam 6y agoVery much. Am not a native English speaker
- apengwin 6y agoIt’s a reference to Klay Thompson, a shooting guard for the Warriors who “makes” a lot of three point shots.
- bosie 6y agoThanks, if that isn't a joke reply I can confidently say I would have never made that connection in a million years
- wodenokoto 6y agoHa! I thought it was a reference to clay, the material as being a substance for "making stuff"
- lordgrenville 6y agoMy guess was because you use "clay" to make things? Seems pretty weak.