Move over, Waymo: web3 levels the playing field for self-driving cars | Opinion
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. For decades, self -driving vehicles have been the stuff of sci-fi movies, but now that we’ve outfitted vehicles with all sorts of sensors, chips, and software. Well, they still kind of are. You might also like: Decentralized communication is the antidote to an Orwellian dystopia | Opinion That’s not to say the industry is not moving forward—it is producing headlines for exciting new initiatives and concerning incidents. But even some of its pioneers question this progress, and the stories under these headlines feature the all too familiar headliners: Google’s Waymo, Apple, General Motors, among others. One would and should have expected to have more actual disruptors in a market as disruptive as this. The truth is some of the underlying technologies in the stack of a driverless car heavily favor centralization and hug...