Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada

Re:Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada by kyrra on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:15AM (#16266440)

Waymo is also working on courting other manufacturers, but nothing else has been announced outside of Honda[0] (which hasn't gone anywhere).

Car manufacturers today can be seen as integrators of various technologies. Most all of the driver assist tech out there today comes from companies like MobileEye and Bosch. It tends to make sense from an expense perspective to let that type of tech be developed outside of car manufacturers so the development costs can be more easily be recouped.

[0] https://www.recode.net/2016/12/21/14046496/waymo-alphabet-ho...

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Re:Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada by princess-aslaug on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:35PM (#16269266)

Thanks. The question will be if owning the best or first autonomous driving logic, good enough that can be mass deployed, will be such a big advantage to make the fact you can make a good car almost irrelevant compared to that.

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