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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft by sjm-lbm on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:53AM (#10836228)
They will still need a chassis/engine before they have a viable car, and there's been no real external indication of them either developing that in house or partnering with/purchasing someone that can provide that expertise.

.. at least I think that's what the question is about.

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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft by simonb on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:45AM (#10836585)
Chinese automaker GAC recently invested in Uber. techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/uber-china-lands-strategic-investment-from-chinese-automaker-gac/

All eyes are on Silicone Valley, but I think China will be the first to allow fully autonomous cars on its roads (Chinese-made of course).

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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft by woody223 on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:06AM (#10836311)
Uber planned to buy 2,500 driverless cars from Google (GX3200, investment of $375m), announced back in 2013 [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/

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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft by eco on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:15PM (#10837775)
Look at the publication date. I'm not sure what TechCrunch was trying to accomplish doing that. It wasn't even the right day of the year for something like this.

Edit: Apparently the point was to test what rebloggers would believe: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/27/uber_goog...

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Re:G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft by mandeepj on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:41AM (#10836546)
And from Tesla too

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098997_uber-ceo-to-tesl...

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