[Dangerous Doug]

Think of the reams of data Google will be able to collect with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of these SDC's running around. GPS data on movement, flow, and video everywhere these things go.

This data will be harvested and the results (if not the data itself) sold just as they currently do in their current business model.

As paranoid as this must sound, there has to be a monetary motive for spending all this cash on SDC development---and the money is in the data, and selling it.

DD