The London company skipped hand-coded rules and high-definition maps for a driving model that learns from experience. Its harder test begins now: turning an elegant research bet into ordinary cars and rides people can actually buy.

Vontier's first enterprise CMO has an unusual brief: make a sprawling portfolio of pumps, payments, chargers, software, and repair tools feel like one useful system. Her method starts with the ordinary moments drivers barely notice.
The company you have never heard of runs the fuel pumps, tool trucks and traffic lights you pass every day - and it is quietly betting all of them on the messy middle of the energy transition.