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You are very, very wrong. I saw the sausage being made. The "koala" car was ... not a success. Building a car is so hard. And Google mostly sucks at hardware m
by jpm_sd 6y ago
You are very, very wrong. I saw the sausage being made. The "koala" car was ... not a success.
Building a car is so hard. And Google mostly sucks at hardware manufacturing. There are good reasons why their market share of Chromebooks, Android phones, etc. is vanishingly small.
- modeless 6y agoNot that building a car is easy, but there are contract manufacturers that can build cars and even design cars for you. And they won't have quite as much of a conflict of interest, in that their business model isn't selling cars direct to consumers, which Waymo is explicitly trying to disrupt. The koala cars may not have been successful but that was many years ago, years that could have been spent making something better.