[icebraining]

Allowing Uber to move forward may mean Waymo takes much more time to develop this tech (since they'll be paranoid about any leaks), and meanwhile Uber burns out as many predict. Now allowing Uber to move forward is the killing action.

In the end, we can't know the future, so we use principles that are supposed to lead, by and large and on average, to better societal outcomes. Now, we can discuss specific principles, but reading tea leaves is not useful.