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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving C... by jpatokal on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:38AM (#9902405)
I'm pretty sure Google would love to sell Uber some cars:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-i...

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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving C... by toomuchtodo on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:11AM (#9902776)
Google Ventures and Google are separate arms of the same company. Ventures invested, but Google proper is working on their own service to compete against Uber.

Note how easy it'll be for Google to flip the "Uber" provider in Google Maps to their own service.

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