Uber is autonomous, while Google’s own taxi service plant

Posted on 03-02-2015 at 10:13 by sir_smokalot – 15 Comments”

The whole world wants in the year 2015, an autonomous car, and now also has taxi-app Uber this ambition is revealed. At the same time there were rumors that Google (also busy with autonomous car) Uber wants to compete with a private service.

Uber, although if miljardenbedrijf valued ($17 billion), this is not entirely on their own responsibility, but calls in the help of Carnegie Melon university, says the Financial Times.

The emphasis is on development of (map)technologies for autonomous cars. The advantages of autonomous taxis are numerous: they are available 24 hours per day can be used, it saves a driver who is a piece of the pie, and you have no staff complains, the female passengers raped, or in any other way for public relations headaches.

However, Google can this trick also, and it has been developing for a long time on a large scale with autonomous cars. As soon as this is ready, would the techgigant they include passenger transport in the want to set for themselves a piece of the market to tackle, so says Bloomberg. If the plans take shape, then we would not be surprised of a Google-Uber-collabo or acquisition.

Where would you rather boarding: in a Google car without driver, or one of the Uber?

Photo: Johnny Cab from Paul Verhoevens Total Recall