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Maybe this is a bit offtopic but I'm curious what are the thoughts with Google driving car.

Right now it feels Google, Uber and Lyft will compete for the same space. Uber looks to be winning, but can it really win the race against Google.

Although to its own merit one thing comes to mind was that -- at least from PR it looks like it -- Uber is moving faster. Google which is always hiring(?) lost the chance to grab that CMU talent.

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Uber is moving faster because it has more catching up to do.

But overall, this will be good for the ecosystem both in terms of raw research project (more people working on a hard problem, though they aren't working together so we're not getting theoretically maximum benefit) and economics (more competition in the space as these projects do flourish into commercial projects).

In the end, this sort of thing should get the product to market faster than Google working on it alone, which will be saving lives sooner. Strict positive.

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