Waymo, the Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) autonomous driving operation, is widely considered the leader in the advance of self-driving car technology. Many believe its product is ahead of those of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), GM, and Ford. Waymo-powered cars have logged over 100 million "fully autonomous miles.†It now operates, or will soon, in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, Miami, District of Columbia, and Dallas. It also has limited tests in Tokyo. An incident during the recent blackou ...