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Old 02-04-2015, 09:55 PM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by arock10 View Post
Well Google has been working on self driving cars for a while. Uber itself heavily relies on Google Maps to run its business

Just imagine a company owning a taxi company with a fleet of cars, except there would be no drivers which account for majority of a fare's price. Then imagine it country wide/world wide/etc. It would be far cheaper to be transported by a self driving google car then to actually own a car

also you'd own/destroy the oil, transporation, and car industry all in one go... amongst other things
Yes, they are becoming too powerful. There is a reason the govt, before lobbyist ran everything, "used" to break companies up before they got "too big".
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