Re: But why didn't Google decide to simply kill off the company?
"From what I have seen it appears that Uber is banking on using self driving cars in the future and are just keeping those pesky human drivers around until then."
With self driving cars or not Uber will be just an app. What proprietary technology do you think would stop say Lyft from buying self-driving cars and offer exactly the same service once self driving car technology reaches general availability and proper car manufacturers start mass producing them ?
Uber's bet is that they can be first to make self driving cars technology work and sell it to someone for lots of money.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
