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by aoeu345 3473 days ago
This repels me for a few reasons:

- Instead of talking about their car's capabilities on the front page, they include a pathos about drunk driving. I feel embarrassed how Google doesn't have more things to say about the car.

- It looks really unattractive, I could hardly call it cute.

- It's not in production, it's in testing.

These companies are sitting on mountains of cash! And they still fail to do things effectively! Apple and Google are just sitting on their fat cashflows while the world is getting very scary very fast. I'm tired of these "technology" companies doing complete fails of R&D projects, too damn shy to leave their advertising revenues. We need leaders with real courage.

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They've told you exactly what matters to them: not sexy cars, not the kinds of technology used, but the goal they have in mind. Tesla, by comparison, is building sexy fast cars that happen to be self-driving.
And Tesla's "Self-Driving" autopilot already has one attributed death. Google has a few fender-benders...