[adrenalinelol]

I agree, it's strange to axe the type of person they'd need to rollout the tech, unless the tech itself just isn't going to be ready soon at all vs. giving him a different role? I wonder how long the project of "L4/L5 autonomous vehicles on today's roads" would have to meander on for before the Alphabet leadership decides to axe it or radically change to scope would/will be?

[ghaff]

Maybe it's enough of a pet project of the senior leadership to get cut an extraordinary amount of slack. But even given continuing incremental advance it still seems a very long way from a viable product that they could sell.