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These kinds of deals don't materialize in 2 weeks. It's more likely that this has been in the works for months and is now finalized/announced. I don't work at
by SmellTheGlove 9y ago
These kinds of deals don't materialize in 2 weeks. It's more likely that this has been in the works for months and is now finalized/announced.
I don't work at Uber or anything, so this is a guess based on past experience elsewhere, but I'm pretty confident that this didn't get cooked up in the wake of their most recent incident.
- wpietri 9y agoWhat you say is true, but I could well believe that Uber was already looking at the progress of their self-driving tech and wanting to hedge their bets. Plenty of reasonable people [1] believe we won't have true autonomous taxis anytime soon. [1] E.g., MIT robotics professor and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/ https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoThis is true. Any competent business is looking at hedging its risks and diversifying its offerings. I was just disagreeing with the hypothesis that this was cooked up in the wake of the most recent crash. The turnaround on that would be way too fast.