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Uber is moving faster because it has more catching up to do.

But overall, this will be good for the ecosystem both in terms of raw research project (more people working on a hard problem, though they aren't working together so we're not getting theoretically maximum benefit) and economics (more competition in the space as these projects do flourish into commercial projects).

In the end, this sort of thing should get the product to market faster than Google working on it alone, which will be saving lives sooner. Strict positive.