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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by fooker on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:10PM (#19744080)
Billionaires have billionaire friends. It won't be too difficult for Elon Musk to talk to the Google folks and get a few billions in funding, for an appropriate equity.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by omarchowdhury on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:17PM (#19744119)
Why would the Google folks help a potential Waymo SDC competitor?
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by nexuist on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:33PM (#19744213)
Because then they'd have stakes in two high profile L5 attempts rather than only one. That way, regardless of who wins, they'd still have their part in the inception of the self driving industry.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by kissickas on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:55AM (#19745408)
Larry Page already invested in Tesla more than a decade ago. Google has invested in Lyft as well, which is also set to be a competitor.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by philwelch on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:32PM (#19744205)
He already blew one deal, and it was with the Saudis, so I think he’s scraping the barrel for equity partners already.
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