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The San Francisco-based startup, co-founded by Kyle Vogt and Dan Kan in 2013, had just shifted its business plan away from developing direct-to-consumer kits to retrofit vehicles and instead turned its attention and efforts to self-driving software. There is too much history to share in this shortish newsletter, but it’s safe to say that autonomous vehicle technology was on the minds of automaker executives everywhere, and startup founders working on the tech were suddenly the darlings of the VC world. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin San Francisco is the most prepared city for new transportation technologies like AI, autonomous vehicles, and air taxis, according to a new urban mobility readiness index.
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