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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by simion314 on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:38AM (#20420591)
I think it should be the normal thing when is about safety, it would be anti-humanity to say have an invention that makes better breaks and not sharing them with the other manufacturers or for "self driving" to have 20 different implementations, using 20 different training data sets on 20 different OS+frameworks+hardware combinations, if you can get this reduced to a few it should improve safety.

Also keep in mind that this companies do not compete on most of the parts of a car, many of this parts are designed,created and sold by third parties, this third parties can make products for different companies. I assume that now there is not a sufficiently large number of companies building this electric cars parts or self driving hardware and software from which the car producers can buy this parts.

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by scotty79 on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:36AM (#20421045)
> ... sharing them with the other manufacturers ...

Sharing with all is completely fine. Sharing with selected one (or few) looks shady to me.

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Re:Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Elec... by simion314 on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:04AM (#20421220)
I do not see the downsides here, what are you afraid of?

Think about it like this, Ford and BMW are collaborating to make better airbags , in future both companies customers will have more safety because of this so no BMW customers should be upset that the Ford ones also got better airbags. What about the other companies though? Some are making good enough airbags in their opinion, some are buying airbags from a third party that are also good enough.

I am wondering if there is a bit of Silicon Valley jelosy that this companies won't buy SV tech that includes the latest ML buzzwords, the thing is that cars had driver assist features before SV made the autopilot cool again.

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