mainstream "journalism" is about rage baiting engagement. Anytime an article has an inflammatory title about what someone says 95% of the time they are being misquoted. In these hundreds of comments I've only seen your comment mentioning that. No one questions anything anymore, if its about something they don't like then it must be true. Even though the futurism article directly links the article its talking about and the full quote/context of what the ceo was saying. I'm not a fan of waymo (and certainly not google's evil ways) but facts seem to be a distant ancient theory these days. Pitchforks first then think later.
idk if the author chose that title maybe its futurism itself but a more accurate description would have been something like "our cars are safe but we are also prepared/preparing for when something bad happens". That doesn't get clicks tho.
he's a rich white man who was an advisor to clinton and obama. He was also the president of harvard and is (now was) on the board of OpenAI. He is rich with a LOT of connections. He will be fine. He's not gonna have the the same issues we are currently facing in the job market.