How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

Re:How Google's Self-Driving Car Works by jiggy2011 on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @07:57PM (#3946417)

Do you think that google will sell the vehicles themselves or will they just license the technology to existing automakers?

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Re:How Google's Self-Driving Car Works by marshallp on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:26PM (#3946523)

If I were them, I would just run the vehicles as a fleet. The have many billions in cash and borrow any amount, so why not. Then innovate on the maintenance of the fleet with robots as well. Maybe start with franchising. Plus, they automatically set the rates for each individual journey dynamically and extract as much as possible.

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Re:How Google's Self-Driving Car Works by jiggy2011 on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:47PM (#3946575)

Interesting, I can see how the taxi idea could be more efficient.

On the other hand cars are a great way of signaling things (like wealth, trendiness etc) and I think people like the idea of having their car.

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Re:How Google's Self-Driving Car Works by eru on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:43PM (#3950634)

Lots of people like having a car, but some people also like not parting with their money.

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