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> they have no relevant ... interests I don't know how big a deal the self-driving cars thing is at Google, but a giant car/battery company sounds pretty compl
by repsilat 12y ago
> they have no relevant ... interests
I don't know how big a deal the self-driving cars thing is at Google, but a giant car/battery company sounds pretty complementary to that.
- mikeash 12y agoThey're both related to cars, but I don't think they're that complementary. Google's self-driving car project is a moonshot R&D thing that just piles on a ton of computers and sensors to an existing car. It's pretty much unrelated with designing and producing the actual car. To the extent that they would go together, presumably so they could build an integrated self-driving car from the ground up, it fits in to my worries: rather than continue to improve and sell the Model S, the acquisition would tie into another project with a significantly different goal in mind.