The company is focused heavily on reaching start of production this year. The components are shared across all the vehicles, so they're not re-designed for each application. Autronautry is coming but there's always going to be a debate of when it will become widespread. We've shown that you can create an autonomous depot in one seent and we've done that with our van. But i would say, in general, the capability of the autonomous system as a whole has got some traction right now.
Arrival is a fascinating company on the brink of putting its bold vision of "microfactory"-made vans, busses and ridehailing vehicles into production. President Avinash Rugoobur joins the show to explain how its 10,000 unit/year microfactories upend the established rules of automaking, how the products enable these dramatic changes and where the whole thing is headed.