How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars (Lawrence D. Burns/Wall Street Journal)

Lawrence D. Burns / Wall Street Journal:
How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars  —  America's car industry dismissed the potential of autonomous driving for years as tech companies plunged ahead.  Now Detroit is racing to catch up.

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