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Waymo CEO: Building safe driverless cars is harder than rocket science

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Waymo CEO: Building safe driverless cars is harder than rocket science

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Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car.

The Google sister company raised $3.2 billion, signed deals with several partners, and launched the world’s first truly driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona.

Even so, the widespread rollout of fully autonomous vehicles remains slow, staggered, and costly.

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