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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by Crito on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:45AM (#9783440)
The industry isn't going to just hand Google a monopoly. Of course they are going to develop their own as well.

Even if Google's software was the absolute bees knees, what if Google deprioritized it? Left the industry? Made unreasonable licensing demands, or made exclusivity deals with competitor automotive manufactures? What if they used it as leverage to push manufactures around?

Even if you do decide to work with Google for now, not having a backup plan is just poor strategic planning. Having a backup plan means developing these sort of systems yourself.

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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by unfamiliar on Friday June 26, 2015 @03:23PM (#9787128)
All I'm saying is that I trust Google to produce this software to a high standard, much much more than I trust the auto manufacturers to do so. I'm sure Google isn't developing their own brake pads in these cars, and I wouldn't trust those brake pads if they were.
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