In previous discussions Waymo and Cruise were typically lumped together — “self driving bad” — usually by the original article even! However, my personal experience both as rider and as former Google employee says that Waymo is holding itself to a higher standard and therefore having higher order problems. That’s a lot of nuance for a flame-y topic but this permit revocation is rather unambiguous and I am having a smidge of schadenfreude as a result.
It's fair, I had the same sense (and am also former google) and wondered if I was the only one. It always seemed crazy to me to lump Waymo and Cruise together, but I never had a water tight argument for why.
