I dunno it kind of looks like they're going to eventually take someone's money based on similar promises.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/24/investing/google-waymo-self-...

I mean, the fact that they've been using funds from advertising to research this problem is admirable in some sense, but they are actually taking someone's money to do this.

Hype from marketing departments on technical matters is not to be trusted.