Actually, I’d say it’s the opposite.<p>&quot;Top&quot; &quot;Elite&quot; universities are usually optimized for their metric – which is the Shanghai index, which is based on number of publications in english-language magazines.<p>In countries outside of the Anglosphere often research at universities can go a lot slower, as they have no chance in the Shanghai index anyway.<p>The Fraunhofer institute has, in cooperation with Sony, VW and Mercedes, worked on self driving cars since 2002. Sometimes you just have to throw a few million euro and a few decades onto a project to get some results.