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Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by kotaKat »

londons_explore wrote: post #3

Waymo has also partnered with a lot of the rest of the auto industry with little to show for it... I wonder if this time it'll be different now it looks like Tesla might finally get self driving to the mass market.

> little to show for it

Wonder if there's any breakup clauses when the manufacturers want to do autonomy with other companies outside of Waymo and this is Alphabet casting a conflict-of-influence net across the industry, almost like a desperate man calling every divorce lawyer in the tristate area to deny his wife proper justice.

Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by dekhn »

jes5199 wrote: post #8

Toyota has been way, way behind on electrification. I suspect they’ve been Innovator’s Dilemma’d are are in a death spiral that they haven’t even noticed yet

Toyota makes hybrids that are excellent. I don't think they want to go full EV.

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Post by sorcerer-mar »

The world would be a lot better off if Tesla and Uber get smoked on this. Tesla's public testing of beta quality industrial control software and Uber's attempt to lilypad jump across the backs of financially unsophisticated drivers are contemptible. I'd be very glad to see neither strategy actually work in the end.

Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by sorcerer-mar »

londons_explore wrote: post #3

Waymo has also partnered with a lot of the rest of the auto industry with little to show for it... I wonder if this time it'll be different now it looks like Tesla might finally get self driving to the mass market.

> now it looks like Tesla might finally get self driving to the mass market.

What year is it?!

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Post by quickslowdown »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #13

The world would be a lot better off if Tesla and Uber get smoked on this. Tesla's public testing of beta quality industrial control software and Uber's attempt to lilypad jump across the backs of financially unsophisticated drivers are contemptible. I'd be very glad to see neither strategy actually work in the end.

Hear hear

Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by duxup »

jes5199 wrote: post #8

Toyota has been way, way behind on electrification. I suspect they’ve been Innovator’s Dilemma’d are are in a death spiral that they haven’t even noticed yet

They seem to make good hybrids, just haven’t chosen to go full electric in a lot of cases.

I do wish they’d make a plug in hybrid Sienna…

Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by quickslowdown »

jes5199 wrote: post #8

Toyota has been way, way behind on electrification. I suspect they’ve been Innovator’s Dilemma’d are are in a death spiral that they haven’t even noticed yet

Toyota had an incredible lead with the Prius that they completely squandered. It was a shamefully poor decision to stop investing in electric.

Re: Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #13

The world would be a lot better off if Tesla and Uber get smoked on this. Tesla's public testing of beta quality industrial control software and Uber's attempt to lilypad jump across the backs of financially unsophisticated drivers are contemptible. I'd be very glad to see neither strategy actually work in the end.

Isn't waymo already partnering with Uber on offering rideshares in different markets?
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