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I don't understand how Uber "looks more likely to actually have these things on the road" when Google's cars have been driving people around Mountain View for y

• rubicon33 10y ago
  I guess I wasn't clear enough. Let me try again. Google has been in the self driving car business since 2009. Uber was FOUNDED in 2009. Google has a history of starting cool projects, which never make it to market (Wave, Video, Glass, etc.)... That alone, doesn't inspire much confidence that their self driving car project will reach production. Uber has the incentive, far more than Google, to actually see this through. If they can cut out drivers, their overhead shrinks significantly and their core business grows.
• zaroth 10y ago
  Not people. Google Engineers.
• badlucklottery 10y ago
  He probably means as a wide release. I also believe Uber will probably go wide first because the risk (people get injured, they possibly go down in flames from legal issues) is worth the reward (they have a chance of surviving as a business by automating human drivers out of the equation). Google has money falling out of their ears and will do a wide release when it's boringly safe. I much prefer companies waiting until it is boringly safe but I don't think that's compatible with the money fire Uber has built.