Alphabet exec says self-driving cars ‘have gone through a lot of hype,’ but Google helped drive that hype

Waymo executives think people have taken its promises of self-driving cars too seriously.

The Alphabet subsidiary went “through a lot of hype that was sort of unmanageable,” said Tekedra N. Mawakana, Waymo’s chief external officer, at a Business Insider conference Tuesday. “Sometimes a lot of hype is so mismatched to what’s happening in the real world.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/alphabet-exec-admits-google-overhyped-self-driving-cars.html