Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars?

Posted by kevinxray on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:02PM
from the blogs.computerworld.com dept.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17135/google_cars

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Re:Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars? by Jun8 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:22PM (#1785974)

I was inclined to say "yes" but then again, $10M and 15 engineers is peanuts for Google; just the publicity Google being the source of innovation and cool may be worth close to that amount.

Google is standing on the shoulders of other efforts in this case, e.g. DARPA Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge).

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Re:Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars? by JunkDNA on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:09AM (#1786741)

I think google is trying to make itself into an organization similar to Bell Labs in its heyday. Bell labs had a lot of research going that was only peripherally important to phones.

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Re:Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars? by jusob on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:29PM (#1785986)

"and meanwhile Google has more immediate problems." I think they have more opportunities than problems!

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Re:Is Google wasting its time with self-driving cars? by bingaman on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:19AM (#1786064)

Streetview wouldn't benefit from some self-driven cars?

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