If there's one car manufacturer I'd blindly trust with my safety that's Volvo. Their cars might not be the most reliable, or the most exciting, or the most luxurious, or the most innovative, but when it comes to safety they're the point of reference.

Is that still the case since the GM buyout? I've not really been into cars for like the last decade so don't really know.

Volvo was owned by Ford. GM owned Saab.

All self-driving cars are going to be security nightmares. But yeah, it's better for it not to have a built-in backdoor in addition to the normal set of security flaws.

Lets not also forget that Volvo has been field testing a lot of the sub systems needed for this for several years with things like: Lane departure warnings, BLIS, Auto break, adaptive speed cruising (that follows the vehicle in front of it) to mention a few.

Strange. Volvo previously partnered with Uber for this cause. Cold feet?

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...

Autoliv is very different from Uber. They are specialized in car safety systems and have a long history of cooperation with many car brands.

I feel this will be much safer than anything Uber or Amazon or Alphabet can put together...

Uber I can understand. But Amazon and Alphabet have bigger names to protect.

Also, how much AI knowledge does NVidia actually have? They are big in computing hardware, not sure about AI.

Volvo does this for living. It's their main product.

For Amazon and Alphabet this is just about reaching a new market before the other guy. Things will be rushed, and they will move fast and break more things. I don't want to ride the car that was created by first-to-market.

But how do you envision that Alphabet is going to leverage being "first-to-market" in this case?

I'm expecting that people in general are more concerned about other aspects of their cars, than the self-driving aspect (as long as it's there), just like people don't care much about what kind of GPS is built-in for a certain car brand. So I'm not sure that Alphabet would try to rush things.

Why do you feel this is safer? Although Volvo labeled its autonomous vehicle endeavors “Intellisafe,” with the goal of making Volvo cars “deathless” when the company fully rolls them out, WayMo has over 3 million driven and is the most maturw automonous platform.

Perhaps Volvo vehicles are the safest in the event of an accident, but the major benefit of a self deiving car is avoiding accidents altogether

I worked in the industry and I feel the same. For existing car companies the question is if they have somebody with enough power to shift the resources in the right direction. For newer companies they are already heading in the right direction but if they treat this as just software, move fast and break things, we will release a patch etc. then they are more likely to turn the users against self-driving cars.

Do webpages from techcrunch load correctly for anyone on Android. I have had problems for a long time thinking they would fix it but they never did.

Nope, its the hipster webdev dilemma ("everyone I know only use Safari on ipad pro").