A Jaguar I-PACE self-driving car is pictured during its unveiling by Waymo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Uber barrelled into autonomous driving out of fear that it could end up as the Myspace or Yahoo of ride-hailing, a company with early gargantuan success that stumbled as times changed.
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, has pursued its ambitions more cautiously, accumulating long years of research and testing before pursuing a plan to bring its technology to the public.
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