it might be just as well that BRN have that contract with NASA...

it might be just as well that BRN have that contract with NASA because


"Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car.The Google sister company raised $3.2bn, signed deals with several partners and launched the world’s first truly driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona.

Even so, the widespread rollout of fully autonomous vehicles remains slow, staggered and costly.“It’s an extraordinary grind,” said John Krafcik, Waymo chief executive, in an interview with the Financial Times. “I would say it’s a bigger challenge than launching a rocket and putting it in orbit around the Earth . . . because it has to be done safely over and over and over again.”

Above extract from FT article today