the last sentence has doomed this project to failure.
IOW between the lines: Wheel and brake? what about acceleration?
It this a car with automation or an automated only car with no driver preferred. If government motors is still in this quota based board then it is government motors controls all. IOW the project is doomed to inevitable failure.
I see it as a joint venture between GM and the current regime. Mary Barra and her board have probably concluded that GM owes the Obama administration a truckload of favors with this being just one of them.