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by GaggiX 3y ago
Add "(2018)"
- readthenotes1 3y agoBack when Uber was thinking it could make self driving taxis
- londons_explore 3y agoUber now has a deal with Waymo - so in effect they are still trying to do self-driving taxi's, but now via a complex business relationship.
- capableweb 3y agoAh, just like I "make hamburgers" when I go through the McDonals drive-through, although it's via a business transaction.
- ianlevesque 3y agoGod this website is cynical. Licensing technology from another company to commercialize it is completely legitimate.
- wpietri 3y agoThat is legitimate, but that's not the point here. The point is Uber's hubris. A hubris very useful in pumping up its stock price ahead of an IPO. If they had quietly planned to license it from the get-go, nobody would have mentioned it.
- ianlevesque 3y agoUber literally killed people trying to develop their own first. Tesla continues to do so. I wish everyone would license Waymo instead.
- vajrabum 3y agoAny reason to prefer Waymo over Cruise? I saw an driverless Cruise taxi in SF just the other day. And are they any other competitors still in this space worth watching?
- typon 3y agoThey had the Uber ATG group - they laid everyone off and gave up on their AV research. How is that cynical? That's a fact.
- jjk166 3y agoMore like making hamburgers by buying frozen burger patties at the supermarket.
- tedunangst 3y agoI was wondering about "jpeg turned 25 in 2017." Seemed like peculiar phrasing.