![]() Only the deepest-pocketed outfits like Waymo, which is a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet auto giants and a handful of start-ups are managing to stay in the game. Companies like Uber and Lyft, worried about blowing through their cash in pursuit of autonomous technology, have tapped out. Now the pursuit of autonomous cars is undergoing a reset. Instead, there have been court fights, injuries and deaths, and tens of billions of dollars spent on a frustratingly fickle technology that some researchers say is still years from becoming the industry’s next big thing. The wizards of Silicon Valley said people would be commuting to work in self-driving cars by now. The cluttered roads of America, it turned out, were a daunting place for a robot. Their road skills improved, but matching the competence of human drivers was elusive. New tests, in years of tests, revealed more and more distractions for the driverless cars. It was seven years ago when Waymo discovered that spring blossoms made its self-driving cars get twitchy on the brakes.
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