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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by yalogin on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:04PM (#13169654)
If I have to bet against anybody it will be Uber. They will be burning cash and given that Google just gave up on building hardware why would one think Uber will succeed?
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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by freyr on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:41PM (#13172400)
> why would one think Uber will succeed

Uber hasn't demonstrated a capacity to succeed, but unlike their rivals, they need self-driving cars to succeed for their company to succeed. The CEO has called self-driving cars "existential" to Uber.

Contrast this with Google. Self-driving cars are an expensive hobby to Google, and completely inconsequential to the success of their core business.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by Dibes on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:24PM (#13169888)
To be fair I don't think Google is the gold standard for hardware. Outside of a few successful hardware releases (Chromecast and arguably the pixel line) they seem to struggle in this area.
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