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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the battle-of-the-corporate-giants dept.

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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by fliptop on Friday May 08 2015, @04:18AM

    by fliptop (1666) on Friday May 08 2015, @04:18AM (#180190) Journal

    Easy enough for Google to have already built a fleet of them

    Didn't this happen before [wikipedia.org]?

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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Friday May 08 2015, @10:25PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Friday May 08 2015, @10:25PM (#180523) Journal

    Yes [wikipedia.org].

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