For decades Tier One suppliers like ZF have quietly become some of the most powerful players in the auto industry, steadily eating more and more of the automotive value chain. Now, like the OEMs, big suppliers have to hedge their traditional automotive businesses with investments in the technologies of the future. Oliver Briemle heads up a big part of that effort at ZF, leading development of a range of of Level Four solutions for the supplier's $12 billion bet on automated driving. He sat down with Ed and Alex at CES to explain how ZF is trying to support its partners in this massive transition while carving out an even bigger piece of the future mobility value chain.