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Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars?
- Jun8 16y agoI was inclined to say "yes" but then again, $10M and 15 engineers is peanuts for Google; just the publicity Google being the source of innovation and cool may be worth close to that amount. Google is standing on the shoulders of other efforts in this case, e.g. DARPA Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge).
- jusob 16y ago"and meanwhile Google has more immediate problems." I think they have more opportunities than problems!
- bingaman 16y agoStreetview wouldn't benefit from some self-driven cars?
- JunkDNA 16y agoI think google is trying to make itself into an organization similar to Bell Labs in its heyday. Bell labs had a lot of research going that was only peripherally important to phones.