Don Burnette is known for his self-driving work at Google (Waymo) which he left and co-founded Otto a self-driving truck startup. Otto which was acquired by Uber in 2016 was involved in a legal battle with Waymo over patent infringements which Uber lost and gave up its self-driving Truck ambitions and lots of dollars!! However, Don Burnette is back on the scene with his new startup Kodiak Robotics which just emerged out of stealth mode with US$40 million funding. Kodiak is now looking to build something more than Otto, a holistic sensor-driven technology beyond Lidar. We believe its going to be an uphill task for Kodiak, but again talent pool is quite limited in this space and there could be an exit strategy in tow here. This could be a good opportunity for sensor companies to check out Kodiak’s new ambitions – Neil Shah