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Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:42PM (#18288763)
> SDC is such a killer tech that whoever has it might decide it outweighs everything else and they can build their own app and get the users to come over

I'm skeptical. This involves a tremendous capital outlay. Even if you solve that problem, you have to get the production lines running, logistical networks humming, and marketing gears going. Much simpler to buy or partner with one of the companies who have spent years training consumers to press a button and unquestioningly get into a car.

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Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives by hcnews on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:47PM (#18288785)
Masayoshi Son is happy to lend you billions of dollars if you have a working SDC implementation.
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Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:56PM (#18288817)
> billions of dollars

Production isn’t simply a throw-money-at-it problem. And in any case, if you can get billions to build you can get billions to buy.

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Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives by mbesto on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:06PM (#18289127)
Mr Musk would like to have a word with you.
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Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:18AM (#18289905)
> Mr Musk would like to have a word with you

Tesla had much more than massive capital availability. If anything, it spent most of its life at a significant capital deficiency relative to the competition.

For Tesla, there was nothing to buy. The only option was to build.

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