Yeah, Cloudflare is doing some interesting things. But, for the most part those aren't consumer-focused services.

Perplexity is one of the worst of the AI offenders. Their crawlers don't respect "robots.txt" or other things that say that LLM crawling isn't allowed.

For self-driving cars, I'll give Google credit there. Their Waymo division is really making progress in self-driving cars. They didn't come up with the concept, but they're pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

OTOH, Tesla's self-driving is a joke. In fact, by calling their bullshit "full self-driving", they've forced the legitimate self driving car companies to use a different term. Tesla's self driving is so bad that it's hurting the rest of the industry and setting back the possibility of actual self-driving vehicles by years.

Boston Dynamics humanoid robots are cool, I'm not as impressed with their robodog though. But, from what I saw from Beijing last week, they're already way ahead of Boston Dynamics. Even when some of their bots were failing, the kinds of movement they were making before they failed seemed more advanced (and natural) than the Boston Dynamics bots.

I disagree with some of your choices, but you've got some good ideas too.