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by jayjay71 3455 days ago
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.
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Did they move companies? If so, which companies did they move to? I am guessing this could already be found publicly?
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