CA to Issue Autonomous Car Licenses

[ARFlyer]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/22/ca...ng-licenses-for-driverless-cars-in-september/

This is interesting. It's the first step to full driverless cars.

Under the new program the cars will still have to have a "driver" for the first three years.

 

[Jim Logajan]

It's interesting to speculate on how Google intends to make money with this technology.

-Rich

Charge a license fee on the patented AI software. Simple and straightforward way to make money.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Charge a license fee on the patented AI software. Simple and straightforward way to make money.

I should have added links to stories about some of the patents that Google is assembling:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-driverless-car-patent-uspto,news-15889.html

http://phandroid.com/2014/01/20/google-driverless-car-signal-recognition/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car