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Everyone made fun of Google for self-driving and totally derided them for years. It only feels normal now because they took the risk and pulled everyone else in the industry forward.
This is not accurate. Wiki has a pretty reasonable page on self driving cars here [1], but you can also look to what led Google to go for Waymo to begin with. [2] Levandowski had already created a self driving motorcycle for a DARPA challenged in 2004. In 2008 Discovery contacted him for a show about it, but being unable to lend them the vehicle - he instead built a new self driving pizza delivery car for them. He as…
Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
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