@gruber I don't know the WaPo reporters on the AI/self-driving car story, but it's pretty clear expertise in technology reporting and editing has crashed with all the buyouts of experienced tech folks (think of a single one left you considered top of their field 5 to 10 years ago), people having left mainstream mags/newspapers for inside work at companies (Apple, Google, Alphabet, etc.), research, or…laid off from the places they went to. I don't think this story would have passed 20 years ago.
