Driverless Hype Collides With Merciless Reality

Hardly a week goes by without fresh signposts that our self-driving future is just around the corner. It will likely take decades to come to fruition. And many of the companies that built their paper fortunes on the idea we'd get there soon are already adjusting their strategies to fit this reality. Uber, for example, recently closed its self-driving truck project, and suspended road testing self-driving cars after one of its vehicles killed a pedestrian. Uber's chief executive even announced he would be open to partnering with its biggest competitor in self-driving tech, Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Waymo.