Originally Posted by
tandempower
They do this 'gradual incremental progress' thing with everything from fuel efficiency to safety improvements to electric motors. It's not limited to the auto industry. It's an obvious business tactic not to progress any faster than the market makes you.
But the big, old companies get pushed by young upstarts. The Japanese auto industry pushed Detroit in the 70s, Tesla pushed them towards electric cars faster than they'd planned, and Silicon valley is pushing them towards self-driving cars.
"Slowing down the convoy" is a much less feasible strategy, these days.