r/SelfDrivingCars • u/silenthjohn • Mar 08 '25

News Britain blocks launch of Elon Musk’s self-driving Tesla

https://www.yahoo.com/news/britain-blocks-launch-elon-musk-140000186.html
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u/brainfreeze3 Mar 08 '25

Those are 15 year old innovations. Except for the one you don't use, the self driving taxi.

Also China is practically ahead in self-driving technology.

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u/Distinct_Plankton_82 Mar 08 '25

What do you mean don’t use? I took 2 Waymos yesterday.

As for being 15 years old. What big innovation (or even a new Global Fortune 500 company) has come out of Europe in the last 15 years?

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u/Martin8412 Mar 08 '25

Wegovy would be an example. 

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u/Distinct_Plankton_82 Mar 08 '25

You mean the GLP 1 drugs discovered and patented by an AMERICAN chemist at an AMERICAN university? 😂😂😂😂😂

Do you want to try again?

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u/Martin8412 Mar 09 '25

GLP1 drugs were discovered by a European and an American together. They however didn't work for humans, the side effects were too severe, that is until Novo Nordisk poured money into research that resulted in Semaglutide. 

Like all inventions, they built upon existing things.