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Google self-driving car project steps out on its own as ‘Waymo’

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"While the self-driving car project was in Alphabet’s “X” unit for “moonshots,” there was much speculation over what the business plan or “end game” was, said Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University.

The birth of Waymo, Smith said, “starts to sound like something that’s more consumer oriented.”"

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