[Hydraulix989]

"Do you have insider information or are you just guessing?"

That's a loaded question.

I don't feel comfortable sharing my credentials here (even though they would very much lend credibility to what I am saying), but I can also assure you that I am not divulging any insider information.

However, I claim that my argument still stands without the support of "insider information" -- given that self-driving vehicle research's domain is primarily academia; all of Sebastian Thrun's work (THE founder of the Google self-driving car project and Google X itself), for example, is more or less out in the wild (even if behind walled garden academic journals).

"Presumably google has the best right now, so you must be talking about them."

That's quite an assumption.