Paul Graham on Twitter: "The fact that Google is working on self-driving cars will make Google Maps a lot better than other options."

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1. Rick‏ @whir 3 Jul 2016
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  will make Maps better — for cars
  
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1. CXXMMMD‏ @D_Friedeman 3 Jul 2016
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  BMW and Mercedes bought Here Drive for exactly same reasons and purposes. Toyota and VW might join them.... Let the games begin.
  
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1. Ran Reichman‏ @ranreichman 3 Jul 2016
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  Apple Maps?
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1. John Burger ‏ @johndburger 3 Jul 2016
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  Better for accuracy, perhaps, but not necessarily from a UI perspective, e.g. turn by turn directions.
  
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1. Lane Brrrrrettig‏ @lrettig 3 Jul 2016
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  the reverse is also true (and maybe more interesting). This is undoubtedly a factor in the Waze acquisition, no?
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1. eran shir‏ @eranshir 3 Jul 2016
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  hardly. Different use cases and miniature footprint. Also wasteful. I can deploy 500 sensor nodes for the price of a single car.
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1. Anil Celik‏ @acelik 3 Jul 2016
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  @here has been acquired by a consortium of german automakers. I believe @here will own the future of realtime maps.
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1. Paul Turner‏ @skyviewPaul 3 Jul 2016
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  and if you crash, it gets immediate flagged up using waze technology. Virtuous circle!
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1. Ryan J. Yoder‏ @ryanjyoder 3 Jul 2016
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  where's the evidence of that?
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1. Dave Craige ‏ @davecraige 3 Jul 2016
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  add one "book now" button and Google Maps basically turns into uber
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