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Fortune
David Meyer

BIZARRE: How waymo outlasted the competition and made robo taxis a real business - You Need To See This

Timeline graphic of self-driving cars Waymo, GM Cruise, Amazon Zoox, Apple, and Uber showing when the companies have entered and quit their testing. (Credit: From Top: Courtesy of Waymo; Courtesy of Cruise; Courtesy of Zooz; Andre J. Sokolow—Picture Alliance/Getty Images; Gene J. Puskar—AP Photo)

The road to autonomous driving is not for the faint of heart.

Look behind to view the wreck of Uber’s self-driving car. In the ditch to the left is General Motors’ Cruise robo-taxi. And that scent of burning rubber? That’s from the skid marks Apple made as it careened toward the exit ramp.

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