Serious question how many other corporations spent billions of dollars for over a decade on a technology that people still aren't very confident will work like Google has been doing with self driving cars? I know utilities and aircraft manufacturers have made bigger investments but with much surer returns.
Has Google spent billions on self driving cars? And, car manufacturers are still spending a ton of money into the same problem space.
Google does have R&D. It is just amusing to see that they made a division that they tried to give a new name to, that isn't living up to what they named it after. (At least, that is the point I got from the article.)
