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by woody223 3825 days ago
Uber planned to buy 2,500 driverless cars from Google (GX3200, investment of $375m), announced back in 2013 [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/

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Look at the publication date. I'm not sure what TechCrunch was trying to accomplish doing that. It wasn't even the right day of the year for something like this.

Edit: Apparently the point was to test what rebloggers would believe: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/27/uber_goog...