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Re:Google is the new Bell Labs by rmason on Sunday December 15, 2013 @04:01PM (#6910842)
Commodotized it? Google's remote driving apparatus costs a quarter of a million dollars per car.

Less than ten years ago remotely controlled vehicles had a hard time driving in a straight line ten miles in the desert. Google's have now driven millions of accident free miles.

Granted they haven't tackled a Michigan snowstorm yet but I think you have to admit they pioneered this technology.

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Re:Google is the new Bell Labs by alayne on Sunday December 15, 2013 @04:19PM (#6910923)
Much of the driverless car tech is from CMU and other universities who have been working on it for 30 years. Google hired several people from CMU and Berkeley. Are they putting resources into it and improving it? Absolutely. I just don't see them as being like Bell Labs here.
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Re:Google is the new Bell Labs by magicalist on Sunday December 15, 2013 @06:08PM (#6911504)
Er, you know that CMU and Berkeley hired those people, too, right?
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