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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: "YahooSans VF", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); max-width: 314px;">Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01 – Rodney Brooks</h2><p class="ydpbadc84d1card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 158, 168);"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When I was preparing to work in robotics in 2009 - 2013, David Anderson would occasionally opine that self-driving is way harder than everyone thinks, and that it wouldn't happen for a very long time. I headed in that direction anyway, and had a very nice career segment, thank you very much. That said, given recent events at Cruise, and other data further explained in the article, I have to sadly concede that David was right.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hats off to you (sadly) Sir <img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f600.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Paul</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>