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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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