On the other hand, for autonomous driving startups, capital will not allow long-term investment without output consumption. Everyone thinks that autonomous driving can make money in the future, but how much money can be earned from autonomous driving and how to earn it before the popularization of autonomous driving are still difficult questions. Therefore, startups still need to gradually productize their technology, give investors enough confidence and company prospects, in order to continue investing in the development of their technology. For autonomous driving companies like Momenta, which excel in machine vision, the initial productization plan is likely to provide technical support for driving assistance to vehicle manufacturers for profit (as can also be seen from investors, Mercedes Benz has also participated, also to make up for its own technological weakness in visual recognition of driving assistance. It should be noted that Mercedes Benz's research and development of driving assistance is not later than Tesla, but it is because visual recognition lags behind Tesla that Mercedes Benz's high-level driving assistance seems to have been lukewarm in the consumer market).

Of course, the ultimate goal of each company is to achieve L4 level fully autonomous driving. The target limit given by Momenta is L4 autonomous driving technology for high-frequency rigid demand scenarios, which is likely to be low-speed autonomous driving during traffic congestion in response to China's traffic conditions.

Nowadays, most start-up companies are aiming for L4 level fully autonomous driving, which is a grand goal that particularly attracts investors. However, autonomous driving is not something that can be solved in a short period of time, and the year 2020 or 2021 expected by major car manufacturers is definitely not a year when autonomous driving can be fully profitable. Investors love to play with the trend, how long will the wind energy of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving continue to blow? It depends on how much patience the investment community has.