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Self-Driving Survivors Struggle With ‘Trough of Disillusionment’

GM’s Cruise, Gatik and Aurora speak up after the shocking shutdown of Argo AI.

A Cruise self-driving vehicle in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment.