Certainly, I wasn't trying to suggest Krafcik was spineless or lacking competence, just low key and not high on coke. The biggest hazard Waymo faced the past 5

Certainly, I wasn't trying to suggest Krafcik was spineless or lacking competence, just low key and not high on coke. The biggest hazard Waymo faced the past 5 years was some kind of Media witch hunt based on a sensational accident of some sort, and that didn't happen on Krafcik's watch. His job was to do a political highwire act and manage the interests of his team, Larry and Sergei and Ruth, regulators and politicians across multiple levels of government, partners across several industries, competitors as well as the media and public expectations. Somehow nothing catastrophically shitty happened. Self driving cars are still a science experiment, and that's not on Krafcik. He killed it. At the front end Waymo is as ready to scale and commercialize as it can be at this stage.