Waymo CEO: Don’t Move Fast & Break Things With Physical AI

This news is about self-driving cars, not home energy upgrades, so it does not affect any plans for your house.

The short version: Waymo's co-CEO, Dmitri Dolgov, spoke out against the "move fast and break things" approach common in tech, saying companies building self-driving cars and other robotic systems should instead "move fast and ship safely." His point was that with physical machines operating in the real world, there is no undo button if something goes wrong, so safety has to be built into the technology from the start rather than fixed after the fact.

Waymo itself has taken a slow, cautious approach to self-driving cars over about two decades and now runs millions of fully self-driven robotaxi trips. Dolgov's comment was aimed at other companies in the same industry, though there is no indication the rest of the field will follow that advice.

None of this touches home energy efficiency, rebates, heat pumps, or weatherization programs. It is a general tech industry story about how self-driving car companies should build and test their systems.