Comment Re:Detroit calls Google arrogant? (Score 1) 236
This is the Detroit that didn't take Japanese brands seriously until it almost killed them. The Detroit that needed 30+ years to bring a small, efficient, powerful engine to the US.because they knew best what American wanted (big V8s for drag racing). The Detroit that hides the fact that Mitsubishi (Chrysler), Toyota (GM) and Mazda (Ford) built their small cars for 20-some years. But Google is arrogant. Right.
While Detroit has a long history of missing trends and stupid decisions, I think this may be as much a case of very different POVs and culture crash.
Detroit, coming from a manufacturing POV, is probably asking themselves:
1. What liabilities am I assuming if I do this? How many, and how expensive, lawsuits will result from this?
2. How do I sustain this in terms of support and parts over the life of a vehicle?
3. What will it cost?
Google is coming from a technology POV:
1. We can do all this cool stuff, don't worry if it's all beta we can iron out the bugs as we go.
2. If it doesn't catch on we can kill it and move on.
3. Don't worry about the support infrastructure, that will eventually come about.
As long as each has a different set of needs, wants and POV discussions will be difficult at best.