In a move that could backfire badly, car manufacturers are working together to buy control of Nokia maps with the intent of blocking Google's development of software for self-driving vehicles. The auto-makers consider open sourced autonomous vehicles to be an existential threat to their existing business, and are prepared to pay Nokia more than two billion dollars to stymie the disruptive technology.
“The greatest threat to the automobile industry would be if Google developed an operating system for self-driving cars and made it available free to everyone,” said one source speaking with the WSJ.
http://jalopnik.com/bmw-audi-and-mercedes-benz-want-to-buy-nokia-s-maps-t-1702660909
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sigma on Friday May 08 2015, @02:25AM
No sane human being would buy a luxury vehicle and then let a chauffeur drive it for them.
FTFY.
And I suspect you're wrong about that. So wrong you've set a new Soylentil record for wrongness that will endure for many decades as an example to our children and our children's children for how absolutely wrong a single internet poster can be...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @05:21AM
No sane human being would buy a luxury vehicle and then let a chauffeur drive it for them.
Google wants people with few means to feel like princes sitting in carriages and being driven.
That is the whole point of google's self-driving, self-accidenting cars.
So they can be controlled and led to the slaughter-house.