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Re:Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M by vthallam on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:44PM (#15542963)
At least for Waymo, the biggest use case is to test the rideshare program with driverless cars with Waze aka a driverless Uber. They can apparently operate in specific cities first, start to monetize and figure out extreme weather conditions and edge cases.
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Re:Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M by praneshp on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:51PM (#15543018)
This was the point I was making. The first gen can just be rideshare (vs buy the car).
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Re:Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M by sagarm on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:08AM (#15548571)
IMO self driving car ownership won't be cost competitive with ride-sharing/tncs.

Why would a car that can drive itself be idle 95% of the time?

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Re:Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M by praneshp on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:19PM (#15553784)
Self driving cars would still suffer deprecation, wear and tear etc relative to miles driven. I don't see how self-driving will directly change any of those.
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Re:Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M by JangoSteve on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:27PM (#15543334)
This and the other replies are all valid points, and further illustrate the larger picture of the process involved in getting self-driving cars to the market.
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