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Self-driving cars are not about technology. They are about saving the 40,000 lives lost on American roads every year. Everything else is a footnote.
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We started this project at Google in 2009 because we believed autonomous driving could be solved. Fifteen years later, we are the only ones actually doing it at scale.
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Patience is our competitive advantage. Everyone else rushed to launch before the technology was ready. We waited until it was.
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The DARPA Grand Challenge proved autonomous driving was possible. Google proved it could work in cities. Waymo is proving it can be a business.
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Every mile we drive teaches our system something new. We have driven more autonomous miles than every competitor combined. That data advantage compounds.