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PREFACE
Last week we learned that Apple had invested $1 billion in "China's Uber," called Didi Chuxing. The move was more than investment in a gigantic ride sharing company, but also strategic in nature and one that reminded the entire world that the Apple Car is coming, it will have self-driving features, and it will be the next radical innovation that Apple introduces.

In a tweet, Uber shrugged the investment off. But of course, that's either hubris or saving face. Didi fulfilled one billion rides last year and holds 87% of the country's private ride-hailing market (Tech Crunch). At the same time, Uber announced in February that it was losing over $1 billion a year in China.


Uber can have as large a private valuation as it likes, a $1 billion loss annually in China is gigantic.

But the news today goes further. Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which has had close ties with Uber in the past including a $250 million investment in 2013, has decided it's time to take that market down in the United States. Here is the breaking news:

BREAKING
Here's what we learned from Google:


While the news will report that Maze is just a carpooling service and no money changes hands unless a carpooler selects to give the driver gas and toll money, it's not at all that innocuous. In fact, it's a poison arrow. Here's what Maze did in Tel-Aviv, Israel:


The reality is that Google will be expanding its self-driving data collection process, much like Apple will do in China. And then the next step will be to create a direct competitor to Uber.

Boldly, the competition was really started by Uber. Google developed a prompt in Google Maps to hail an Uber ride, but Uber decided it didn't like that. According to Alphabet's senior vice president for corporate development, David Drummond, Uber is undercutting Google Maps:


SELF-DRIVING CARS
While the competition looks like one within ride-sharing, it actually goes much deeper. The self-driving featured automobile will be the fastest growing segment in cars we have seen since Ford introduced its first assembly line created Model T. Here is the growth in the self-driving realm:



This market has so many entrants we can't even name them all. But, the leader is Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) with General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Ford (NYSE:F) already partnering with Lyft and Alphabet, respectively.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), the deep learning and artificial intelligence marvel, already has contracts with over 40 automobile manufacturers and a chip with the Tesla name on it. Not to be out done, news broke about a month ago that Amazon was tapped by Germany's luxury car makers for its cloud business, with hints that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) would be making its way into the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) realm.

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