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Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
- mimixco 8y agoXerox couldn't make a success out of the Alto because it was run by "tonerheads," as Steve Jobs called them, copier guys who didn't see how a PC would help their copier business which was already at the top of the game. Could it be that Alphabet is run by advertising guys and so it can't successfully develop a self-driving car? I think that's one factor. Now I think about it, is there any Alphabet/Google business that's successful that's not advertising-based? Another factor is that self-driving cars are harder (and further off) than the industry pretends they are. Tesla is ahead of the pack and they still have significant problems. The latest Model 3 shipments in Europe had autopilot disabled.