Recently, Waymo and Lyft launched a self-driving vehicle partnership [0]. With Trump nomination of Derek Kan (Lyft General Manager in Southern California) to serve as Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy [1], would it ease Waymo path towards autonomous car supremacy?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lyft-waymo-collaboration-...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/06/presi...