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Poor waymo, having to pivot to selling peripherals it developed ever since dad cut the purse strings. I wonder how this bodes for their long term plan? From wha
by mvzvm 6y ago
Poor waymo, having to pivot to selling peripherals it developed ever since dad cut the purse strings. I wonder how this bodes for their long term plan? From what I understand, Alphabet is getting less and less bullish on a lot of these moonshots.
- pastullo 6y agoIs it? Waymo seems to be doing pretty well, it has the largest fleet of autonomous cars and from what i remember by far the most extensive testing program on real streets. This looks more like an attempt to spread the R&D cost on lidar by selling to third parties. I guess as more and more companies sell their lidar solutions, it becomes more of a commodity and less a differentiation factor, like self-driving software for example.
- clapper 6y agoThere's an awful lot of hiring for a peripheral merchant.
- omarhaneef 6y agoFrom a purely economic perspective, this is probably a good strategy even if they had a huge budget. Each component should compete in the market place. If there are better components out there, your divisions should be able to buy them instead of internally developed ones. If a competitor can use your components better and build something better, they should etc. If a competitor can provide better intermediate products using your components, buy them and incorporate them in your system. You only have to be one of the best at one thing, and you should be the one of the best at a few things, and you could be one of the best at many things.
- bengale 6y agoSeems more like a better way to gather information on larger projects working with similar hardware.
- paxys 6y agoThe moment Sundar became CEO of Alphabet it should have been clear that the whole experiment was a failure. It is probably too much work to dissolve the entity and fold all the moonshots back into Google, but that's effectively how things are running now.