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Lyft And Waymo Announce They'll Collaborate On Self-Driving Cars (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes NBC:
In the race to the self-driving future, Lyft has agreed to work with Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google's parent company, to bring autonomous vehicles to the masses, both companies told NBC News on Sunday night. The announcement comes as Waymo has accused Lyft's biggest competitor, Uber, of stealing trade secrets from the company to advance its own self-driving operation...
Both companies issued gushy statements about their new partners. Lyft said Waymo "holds today's best self-driving technology, and collaborating with them will accelerate our shared vision of improving lives with the world's best transportation." And Waymo applauded Lyft's "vision and commitment to improving the way cities move", saying it would help their technology "reach more people, in more places."
Both companies issued gushy statements about their new partners. Lyft said Waymo "holds today's best self-driving technology, and collaborating with them will accelerate our shared vision of improving lives with the world's best transportation." And Waymo applauded Lyft's "vision and commitment to improving the way cities move", saying it would help their technology "reach more people, in more places."
This is just poking Uber in the eye.
If they were Microsoft, they would be throwing chairs. Except Google actually has the capability to hurt Uber, whereas Microsoft had nothing.
Uber is forcing the creation of the market by being super disruptive (and with many shenanigans).
Lyft may well reap it by being collaborative.
Uber should at least get a minority position in Lyft, just for hedging..
So I can criticize yours but if you criticize mine it's "utterly irelevant", right ?
It takes a big government to give you Auschwitz. But sure it's worth the risk if we can ban big bad Uber.
I wonder why no-one thinks about this, the car is always connected to the network. So someone can probably take over your car and drive you to the police station. That is a better outcome, anyway, than driving you to the outskirts, robbing and shooting you.
Of course, the cars will be fully protected from this kind of behaviour, firewalls, virus protection until something sneaks in through the entertainment system. In other words, fully protected, until it isn't, business as usual.
Just thought I'd mention this, with the ransomware thing, it's been that kind of week.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
"The record says it can do a pretty good job with healthcare, weapons systems, and heavy industry. Sucks pretty much everywhere and always at agriculture and producing/distributing consumer goods"
The problem here is that you are treating socialism as an economical system (which is what the original intent for it was). However you can't say "socialism works just for healthcare and not for production" because it's supported by capitalism when only the healthcare is statesponsored. Socialism works for production too (we had co-ops for everything) it's just very crappy and there is no investment in inovation (hey that money can go to the workers!!).
Since the Waymo / Uber trade secrets case I suspect Waymo isn't Uber's biggest fan. Sure, Lyft appear to be the better company, and Waymo might really think this is an awesome partnership, but it might also just be a way of kicking Uber by helping their main competitor.
Now we know where all the anti-Uber "stories" come from: the multibillion dollar Lyft corporation backed by GM, and Waymo backed by Google.
Ha, nobody is buying this "Alphabet" bullshit.
The dangers of 'self-driving' = dealership only service even for lights and oil changes Maybe even tires as well!
If you piss off Big Brother, "accidents" will happen. And maybe your Samsung TV will be the one to sell you out.
When all you 'self driving car' fools have your ability to decide where you're going and when because your so-called 'autonomous vehicle' is unable to be controlled by you, and criminals and governments are the ones controlling it instead, I'm going to point and laugh and tell you again and again ad infinitum that I told you so, and you're DUMB, DUMB, DUMB and there won't be a goddamned thing you can do about it. Then I'll take my own life because at that point in time it'll be the ONLY thing left you have the freedom to decide for yourself (when and where you die) and with my dying breath I'll know that I'm one of the LAST truly FREE people left in this decaying excuse for a 'democratic republic' we used to live in.
Enjoy being CATTLE.
hobby what about paying $150 for basic oil change at dealer when there is no jiffy lube to keep them in check.
Paying $100 for a light change as that is the dealership min fee for service.
$150-$200 to change an battery? you can change it own your own but that may trigger battery suicide mode that can void your warranty just like capcom did in the past.
Will Lyft (and Uber) continue to operate on a contract basis, expecting individual contractors (since they're not drivers, perhaps they need to be called "investors?") to purchase their own self-driving cars to use with the service? Or will these companies purchase their own vehicles and get into the actual service business themselves? I personally think the ideal situation in the future is the complete elimination of personal vehicle ownership, but since I don't see that happening, allowing people to direct their vehicles to work for rise-sharing services while they are at work or sleeping seems like a great idea.