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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by MBCook on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:04PM (#17853542)
Uber’s history outside of self-driving cars is hardly clean either.

My only guess would be Toyota is hoping that when Uber goes full self-driving they would use Toyota vehicles to do it.

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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by chriselles on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:40PM (#17853807)
That’s what I’m thinking.

A large investment in a potentially very large future customer.

Would Boeing invest money in an autonomous flight project by Southwest Airlines in hopes of locking in a Boeing 737 only fleet?

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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by giancarlostoro on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:43PM (#17853840)
I hope this is the strategy instead of Toyota wanting to use Uber on their cars as the main source of AI. To this day Uber hasn't done anything to impress me and probably most people. Their corporate culture doesn't help either.
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