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thenewgreen · 3847 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work
Imagine Ford comes out with an autonomous vehicle using Google's dataset. Maybe two years later Germany gets into a dust-up with Google over data privacy. Google could retaliate against Germany by downgrading or removing their German dataset - unless Ford has an agreement with Google, in which case Germany could retaliate against Ford. The legal snarl evolves pretty quickly regardless of the rules on the ground.
Whatever happened to good ole anti-trust laws? -Seems that would fall squarely in the "abuse of monopoly power" category... right?