Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
by beamatronic on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:27PM
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They are building their own private terminal at San Jose airport [1].
1. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23041939/san-jose-city-council...
Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
by kunaalarya on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:23AM
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for their private jets
"Signature's project includes seven hangars for corporate jets, with five of those hangars to be used by Blue City Holdings, its primary tenant. That company will manage aircraft for Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose private jets are now parked at Moffett Field, where their lease is up next year."
But having said that, there is probably nothing stopping Google from creating a driverless car Uber rival, it would fall outside of the realm of being a true direct competitor as there are no drivers. But are driverless cars at a point where they can be rolled out on a larger scale? Seems there is a lot of regulation and process to abide by before that starts to happen, maybe a controlled rollout?
I am surprised Google haven't tried launching their own airline yet, it would probably be undeniably easier than a ridesharing network of driverless cars.