[ChuckMcM]

The Waymo partnership with Chrysler is mentioned in the article. They announced that partnership back in May[1]. They dropped some press releases on their self driving mini-van in December [2] where it was noted among the press that "Other automakers, including Ford and General Motors, have made even more aggressive moves on the self-driving car front."

And then here in January we have this content free press release.

I'm a big fan of figuring out self driving cars. As the evolution of self driving cars unfolds, I become convinced that Google (or a subsidiary via Alphabet) is going to end up being much of a player in the space.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/fiat-goog...

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/12/19/get-firs...

[jayjay71]

Time will tell, but I think the biggest red flag for Google/Waymo was how many senior personnel left the project in the last year. It wasn't just a few people - it was almost anybody that had been named in every previous press release, and many other people as well.

[LightskinKanye]

Did they move companies? If so, which companies did they move to? I am guessing this could already be found publicly?

[jayjay71]

Some left to start their own companies, some went to Uber, and some haven't publicly stated yet. Everything I said is easy to verify via Google (there are articles written about it). The heavy hitters are Sebastian Thrun who left many years ago, so that's now really news; Chris Urmson, who was the face of the project, left about a year ago; Anthony Levandowski left to start his company (but really to join Uber since that was clearly the idea from the start) and took some people with him; and two of the lead software engineers started Nuro.ai

[zardeh]

I think you messed up at the end of your post. Are you missing the word "not" here?

>I become convinced that Google (or a subsidiary via Alphabet) is going to end up being much of a player in the space.

[ChuckMcM]

Yup. Can't edit it now sadly.