Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Because the rental cars are usually purchased in bulk, rental car agents have significant influence over the terms of the sale since they possess the ability to play one supplier against another to lower the sales price. Sven Beiker, a professor at Stanford’s Center for Automotive Research , doesn’t think he’s going to see a fully self-driving car in his professional lifetime. It’s just a matter of standardizing it. Most products out there are tested by simulating real world conditions just as the user would actually use the device. Whatever the reason for the car company’s bankruptcy, there have been literally thousands of car manufacturers since the inception of the automobile which have gone out of business. One of the oldest car manufacturers in the world, Oldsmobile, was dropped by GM in 2004.
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