I don&#x27;t think Google has a decade ahead of anyone in self driving cars. The AI technology and datasets are shared pretty liberally and as soon as someone makes a breakthrough, everyone can replicate it. It&#x27;s much closer to fashion than rocket design in that sense.<p>Google will be the first but I expect many to follow suit. Maybe if Google pulls another Android move and open-sources the driving tech, they could possibly gain 90% of the market share by making it less interesting to develop competing technologies.<p>But look at other AI fields - speech recognition, image recognition, natural language processing - they are in the open and all improvements quickly circulate.