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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by 3pt14159 on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:19PM (#17854146)
You're both right. It is much harder to clone Waymo. Doesn't mean that there isn't a second mover advantage.

Plus the amount of patents involved in this mean even if you're burning money down a dead end you might stumble upon an insight / patent that would help regardless of the approach taken. Often time with engineering a good design comes out of a known shortcoming of some other subsystem.

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