Google's self-driving cars would've hit something 13 times if not for humans / New report shows when and why test drivers have to take the wheel
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Yes, agreed, Tesla is so much better in this area. That is why someone was pi---d off enough to buy an ad during the Super Bowl to call out Tesla.
There is nothing as silly as researching self-driving cars for 10 years and having NOTHING to show for it. Literally nothing but demos! TEN YEARS of demos! The only reason it hasn't been shut down already is there would be a massive shareholder lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty wasting all those billions on a failed project! Every day I watch the self driving cars break the law only 2 blocks from the main google lab, and it makes me want to pu-e. They all make illegal turns in order to go back home to their lab.
The business objective is to be the android of self driving cars. Google is a rest and vest company where all projects no matter how amazing eventually fail and never scale. It's time to face the music now that infinite revenue growth has ended.
Google is doing also Google Maps, and they have info about 3D shapes of roads, so they probably were doing exactly the same what other map providers are trying, but instead of only providing data it seems that they working also on self drive, maybe they counted that thanks to this they may not need to provide data about everything, because they would be able to derive this info from cameras?
In other words they were searching for other possible streams of revenue?
why was Google even doing this
how were they going to monetize it as they don’t build cars. Tesla investing in this area makes sense. Google? what was the business objective here?