Waymo has the benefit of not going bankrupt if they wait another couple years..
Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
by sbierwagen on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:10PM
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Oh? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-alphabet-moonshot-project...
The whole reason the car project got spun out into Waymo was to fast-track commercialization. They do not in fact have an infinite amount of money.
Engineers at Takata and in GM's ignition key department made one choice, Waymo seems to be making the other.