Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech

Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by simonsarris on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:27PM (#15261982)

Serious question: Why not acquire Tesla and position yourself leaps and bounds ahead of the other tech giants?

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Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by killjoywashere on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:34PM (#15262011)

I rather seriously doubt Elon is selling Tesla.

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Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by Salgat on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:19AM (#15262845)

He owns 22% of shares.

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Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by 0xbear on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:30PM (#15261997)

Because Tesla is a money losing, capital intensive business they don't know how to run. See e.g. their Motorola debacle.

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Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by gordon_freeman on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:36PM (#15262021)

Maybe because Google's self driving tech is fundamentally different than that Of Tesla's. Tesla relies on sensors and vision based system whereas Google relies on LIDAR. So I don't think they'd able to integrate the Tesla's self-driving tech into Waymo in any ways.

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Re:Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech by tybit on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:21PM (#15262658)

I think while the technical differences could be resolved the biggest blocker would be cultural. Musk has been super aggresive in rolling out more and more self driving features, where as Google and everyone else seems to be much more cautious.

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