We’re Learning to Live with Waymos. It’s Going Weird

that causes someone to lose their job,” Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous driving, told me.

If autonomous driving is the future, it’s a future you can visit in San Francisco.

Ridesharing provided a business model for autonomous cars, and rideshare companies were eager to eliminate the expense of human drivers.

Tesla and Uber had embraced a Wild West image; Waymo was doing its autonomous driving in hybrid Chrysler minivans.

Waymo sought a restraining order against Stacker One; the City of Santa Monica sued Waymo; Waymo sued Santa Monica.