Google's Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals
- Ambitious full autonomy goal means slow progress, frustration
- Uber, Tesla may have data edge to train autonomous software
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Chris Urmson, the mild-mannered robotics expert who ran Google’s self-driving car project, used to say that when his son reached driving age in 2019 the technology would be available so the teenager wouldn’t have to take a driving test.