Uber announces a self-driving car pilot in Pittsburgh using Volvo XC90s. The rideshare + autonomy thesis becomes the dominant narrative for a generation of AV startups.

NVIDIA announces the Xavier SoC roadmap at GTC. Purpose-built edge AI compute becomes a major product category for autonomous systems.

Google announces Google Home, its competitor to Amazon Echo. The assistant wars become a three-horse race with Apple Siri also in the mix.