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Andrew Ng wasn't really the brain child of Google's car. That honor goes to Sebastian Thrun.

Andrew wasn't their self driving car leaders, he was their DL and ML leader, he didn't lead the SDC division specifically.

"compete" would imply Chinese recognition of US patents, which seems hit-or-miss.

Aren't you thinking of trade secrets by that statement? Patents would let anyone do it you just have to pay google their fee.