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Google to Become a Car Company, Plans to Make Its Own Self-Driving “Robotaxis”

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Google, a car company? Well that sounds pretty strange, doesn’t it? Yet at the same time it also sounds very exciting, and it kind of makes sense, and not just because Google was already researching self-driving car technology. I believe that in the future the car companies that will be successful will be the companies that will be “tech companies” at their core. This means it will be companies like Google or Apple (I think Steve Jobs was thinking about making a car, too, later on) that will be making the best, most modern and most advanced cars in the world. Tesla Motors is also much more of a Silicon Valley type of tech company, than a Detroit type of “car company”. They are also very tech oriented, and very future-oriented. Tesla Model S is a car built from the ground up to be an all-electric car, unlike many other electric cars from other car companies, that are just re-used gasoline cars, but with batteries inside, which means they won’t be very efficient and won’t get a lot of mi