Chinese companies are expanding globally and rapidly. Its biggest commercial competitors are in the United States. Waymo, Alphabet’s robotaxi business, remains the commercial leader, operating paid driverless services in several US cities. Zoox and Amazon-owned Tesla are expanding more cautiously, while Uber has abandoned development of its own autonomous vehicles, which was marred by a
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, founder of Swil Arts Studio. She left her job as a software engineer at Google, spent a year traveling with her partner, and discovered watercolors in Thailand. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Warsaw in the