#47: Inside the Navigant Leaderboard Report on Automated Driving Vehicles, with Sam Abuelsamid

Summary: For the second year in a row the Navigant Leaderboard Report on Automated Driving Vehicles has created a bundle of controversy by ranking establish automakers higher than Silicon Valley tech companies in the race to autonomous vehicles. This week Navigant's Senior Research Analyst for automated vehicles, Sam Abuelsamid, joins the Autonocast to explain how he came up with these often-misunderstood rankings and why factors beyond the technology itself are so important. If you've ever wondered why GM and Ford rank so high on Navigant's leaderboard and companies like Tesla rank so low, be sure to give this episode a listen.