Loup Ventures wagers the future lies in autonomous and electric vehicles, but it’s certain that future is further off than most expect. The North American International Auto Show only reaffirmed this thesis. “It’s almost as though, as far as autonomous systems, we’ve built like 90 percent of the way there, and the last 10 percent to actually make them suitable for mass adoption is going to take just as long if not longer than the process leading up to where we are now, it seems,” Loup Ventures analyst Will Thompson told Benzinga. 'Infinite' Number Of Tasks Ahead Between regulation, infrastructure development and OEM-startup negotiations, mass adoption of AVs and EVs might take a while. “There are an infinite number of things that have to happen that are seemingly so small but it’s a problem that gets blown up to as big as you can imagine,” Thompson said. The minutiae are nearly inconceivable. From V2X — vehicle to anything — technology to the mimicry of human instinct and emotion in self-driving software, mobility players are still finding new solutions and new problems. “Some of the companies are working on something so nuanced that I didn’t even think about,” Thompson said.Source