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We had the money. We had the talent. We had two of the biggest automakers in the world. What we didn't have was enough time.

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The technology is not the hard part. The hard part is making the technology work in every situation a human driver would encounter.

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Self-driving cars are further away than any of us want to admit.

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Profitable, fully autonomous vehicles at scale are still a long way off. We're being honest about that.

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Having two corporate sponsors sounds like a dream. In practice, it meant two sets of priorities, two vehicle platforms, and two definitions of success.