Alphabet reveals the ugly deficiencies of self-driving cars ZDNet

When the artists formerly known as Google want to sell you on something, they come over all hippy, dippy, happy, and clappy. After all, you're essentially a child that needs to be told how to think and live. Transportation is about to get a technology-driven reboot. The details are still taking shape, but future transport systems will certainly be connected, data-driven and highly automated. So to celebrate its Waymo self-driving arm grabbing $2.25 billion of external funding -- what? self-driving isn't self-financing?