Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self driving car

Re:Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self dri... by BoorishBears on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:46AM (#13166693)

So they've stopped working on their own self-driving car from scratch, but they haven't stopped working on self-driving cars.

They just want to progress to semi-autonomous cars with a 3rd party instead of leapfrogging to fully autonomous built in-house, which makes sense.

The headline seemed a bit more ominous...

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Re:Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self dri... by baldfat on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:52AM (#13166722)

I think the idea is that Alphabet will be spinning this department to become their own company. This means they need to have a product that they can sell and not have the bottomless well of funding they previously saw.

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Re:Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self dri... by brbrodude on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:06AM (#13166809)

I was already imagining Google would be much more interested in dominating the algorithmic and software aspect of it than competing with their own car, since self-driving software will probably be winner-take-all, it's of course much better to license the tech for every other carmaker... I'd guess the car was just a 'vehicle' for the R&D all along.

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