One might think Waymo CEO John Krafcik was being presumptuous when he said on Saturday at a conference that he has a “lot of confidence” his company’s self-driving cars wouldn’t kill anyone the way one of Uber’s did a week ago. But the Uber error was such a fundamental one—a pedestrian was walking slowly in front of the Uber car, and theoretically was in view of the vehicle’s sensors—that...
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