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It seems like both Google and Apple are having big troubles with their car programs. For either of them, why not attempt to acquire Tesla? Wouldn't that launch
by simonsarris 10y ago
It seems like both Google and Apple are having big troubles with their car programs. For either of them, why not attempt to acquire Tesla?
Wouldn't that launch point give them a huge leg up against the other?
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoI'm not sure either of them really wants to be in the car business.
- PinguTS 10y agoGoogle has no interest in actually building cars. Google has an interest to collect the data and for such sell (or even may giving it for free) the software collecting the data. Google is a data driven company and not a hardware manufacturer. Even that Google is building their own hardware in regards of server, server racks, and such think. But all that is only to support their data driven model. The problem here is, that car makers have no interest to buying this software from Google and as such selling the data to Google. They want to keep the data to them-self.
- rhino369 10y agoTelsa is still a niche car company, and despite their PR their autonomous tech isn't really better than other luxury car companies. In fact it might be worse and Tesla is more willing to just beta test in production. But I doubt either company wants to actually deal with automotive manufacturing and sales. They'd be better off just being a supplier to car companies. You'd go buy a Ford Fusion with the Google Self Driving package, or something similar. There were rumors Apple would actually build cars, but I think they were either wrong or Apple gave up. It's not that profitable of an industry.