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I wish they provided some details on why the San Antonio and Nashville small trials didn’t scale to Louisville. If the issues were really so glaring and obvious it seems those efforts should have revealed them.

Edit: Looks like it didn’t actually work in those cities either. One wonders why the Louisville representatives missed this.

https://www.wsmv.com/news/repaving-streets-reveal-google-fib...

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Louisville's representatives likely missed that because they were wearing rose-colored glasses. They were thinking "big picture" about would a successful project could mean for the city and were ignoring the details. They were probably (rightly?) assuming that an organization like Google would be able to learn from their mistakes and "this time would be different". Really, it's hard to fault them for thinking this way, but just like every other situation in business, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

hoping to get something for their $400K investment.

Maybe it was so soon after those trials started that the problems hadn't shown up yet?

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