Re:Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives
by toast0 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:17PM
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I can't imagine there won't be huge patent fights. Whatever is needed to make self driving work is clearly non-obvious or it would be done by now.
It may be the case of just throw enough ideas together and that works, in which case it may be effectively a commodity; everybody working on it has enough patents that cross-licensing works. Or it might be there's one key idea that makes everything work, and whoever files first controls it for whatever a patent lasts these days. Kind of depends which company owns that patent how it goes.
It may be the case of just throw enough ideas together and that works, in which case it may be effectively a commodity; everybody working on it has enough patents that cross-licensing works. Or it might be there's one key idea that makes everything work, and whoever files first controls it for whatever a patent lasts these days. Kind of depends which company owns that patent how it goes.