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Waymo Isn’t Going to Slow Down Now

The man running Alphabet’s self-driving company talks about the deadly Uber crash and the launch of a new driverless vehicle with Honda.

John Krafcik, chief executive of Waymo, takes the stage to announce another automaker partnership during an event in New York on March 27. — John Krafcik, chief executive of Waymo, takes the stage to announce another automaker partnership during an event in New York on March 27.
Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg

By Mark Bergen and Keith Naughton

April 2, 2018 at 9:00 AM UTC

Waymo, the self-driving car company started by Google, did nothing after an autonomous vehicle run by Uber killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. It didn’t pull back on tests in the nearby suburb of Chandler, where passengers are already taking rides with no one behind the wheel. Its fleets elsewhere didn’t abandon public streets, a precautionary move made by Toyota.

John Krafcik, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, decided to wait.

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