Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars
Google opens an Uber competitor. Uber opens a Google (research) competitor.<p>It will be interesting to see which one can commodize the other. I feel that what Google has built (self-driving cars) is harder to replicate, but Google doesn't have the killer instinct that Uber does.<p>If Android is any guide, Google would rather spread their innovation around to partners rather than to use it to build a killer first party product. I imagine Google will license their future self driving-car stack to the existing car manufacturers, Uber, et al.