Ah, just like I "make hamburgers" when I go through the McDonals drive-through, although it's via a business transaction.

God this website is cynical. Licensing technology from another company to commercialize it is completely legitimate.

That is legitimate, but that's not the point here. The point is Uber's hubris. A hubris very useful in pumping up its stock price ahead of an IPO. If they had quietly planned to license it from the get-go, nobody would have mentioned it.

Uber literally killed people trying to develop their own first. Tesla continues to do so. I wish everyone would license Waymo instead.

Any reason to prefer Waymo over Cruise? I saw an driverless Cruise taxi in SF just the other day. And are they any other competitors still in this space worth watching?

They had the Uber ATG group - they laid everyone off and gave up on their AV research. How is that cynical? That's a fact.

More like making hamburgers by buying frozen burger patties at the supermarket.