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Google's DeepMind, despite its AI breakthroughs, has yet to commit to full self-driving systems at scale. The dominant bottleneck remains the organization’s slow pace, lack of focus, and the high resource costs required to develop an autonomous driving brain comparable to Tesla’s.
Elon Musk has also pointed out that Google’s and other legacy tech giants' organizations tend to slack, only intensifying efforts when risking losing ground—much like a military desperate to turn the tide before a decisive engagement.