Week-in-Review: Google's never-ending autonomous road trip

This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. In thinking about what to highlight in this week's newsletter, I was tempted to talk about Zoom and Apple and Superhuman and the idea that secure communications can get screwed up when consent is bypassed, and I'm sure that's something I'll dig into down the road, but what intrigued me most this week was a single factoid from Google's self-driving unit. Waymo's CTO told TechCrunch this week that the company has logged 10 billion miles of autonomous driving in simulation.