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Gave a Waymo engineer a ride in my FSD Tesla around the Bay recently. The conversation was very illuminating. It seems to me there should be pretty clear corollaries in more traditional engineering markets. Does Black and Veatch take out E&O insurance? Did John McShain take out E&O for the Pentagon? Did Tishman take out E&O on the World Trade Center? Did the University of California take out E&O on the Manhattan Project? Does Boeing or Lockheed take out E&O on aircraft?


> Did the University of California take out E&O on the Manhattan Project?

Interestingly, see [1] for

“a teletype from General Groves to Oppenheimer from February 1944, instructing the latter as to what to tell Underhill [UC’s secretary and finance officer] about the hazards to be insured against at an unspecified site”

[1]: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/03/28/weekly-document-i...


> The conversation was very illuminating

this sounds very interesting! any more details?




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