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Good point but it rarely failed at something that was requiring such financial investment.
by princess-aslaug 9y ago
Good point but it rarely failed at something that was requiring such financial investment.
- zerostar07 9y agodo we have a ballpark about the amount of money spent here? they have thrown a lot of money on other projects too i think .
- princess-aslaug 9y agoI don't have numbers but I was thinking to spectacular failures like Google Wave or similar software projects. For sure they were also built by large teams and costed a non trivial amount of money, but this kind of research on autonomous vehicles, it's spawning a much larger amount of time and requires non common experts, there are tons of legal issues related, and you don't stop because people are not using it... it is a technological problem so you spend more and more resources trying to crack it. So I've the feeling that it's significantly more costly than other attempts that Google did in the past, but I've no numbers. I guess the Waymo numbers are simpler to get, because now it's a spin-off (but we should add all the money spent before the spin-off), but the cost of things like Wave are near impossible to obtain, I can imagine.
- dx034 9y agoAre you sure? What about Google+? Guess they spent at least a billion for that. Google's search and ad network is paying (directly or indirectly) for everything. All other projects are just to keep people using their search and seeing ads on their platform.