How Google, Tesla, and Uber Could Team Up For the Driverless Taxis of the Future

cartechboy writes "Follow the thinking for a second. Google drops $258 million into the car-taxi app Uber. Google says it will make self-driving cars available within four years, based on its ground-breaking research into self-driving cars. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spoken with Google about driverless technology for future Tesla vehicles. So, are we watching the assembly of a massive driverless taxi service of the future? Battery-electric vehicles make excellent autonomous taxis (very few moving parts, low per-mile energy cost, and zero noise or emissions) Could Google use some of its cash hoard to buy Tesla outright (making Elon Musk its third largest shareholder in the process), then grab Uber and turn the whole thing into an app? Musk's goal has always been to transform the very nature of transportation. This might just do that."

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1. If you don't look just good enough and have a job and personality, or a fat wallet, you're forever doomed to having sloppy, embarassing sex with fat chicks. Forever.
2. If you have low self-esteem and/or are a virgin, take the first fat girl who puts out and work your way up as your game and self-esteem increase. Oh, and wear a condom and rub Neosporin around your entire genital area before intercourse.
3. Keep track of your girls' interests and what you told them, and never ask them the same question twice. Avoid rookie mistakes like asking,"Were you the one I told that story?" or confusing their Chihuahua with another girl's pug.
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5. If a woman insists on a first meeting before noon, a second meeting on a weekday, or a third without sex; it's safe to say you're being played and should look elsewhere.
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7. Tell women "no" the first few times when they get grabby. If you cave to their demands too soon, they see it as a sign of weakness and promptly ditch you afterward in scorn.
8. Trite, but take into account the relationship she had with both her mother and father, and interpolate that relationship with her behavior. The worst combination for you is a daddy's girl who had a bad relationship with her mother, unless you're daddy.
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-- Ethanol-fueled