NEW YORK, Sept 13 — Once considered a leader in the field, Google has lost its first-mover advantage to other companies pursuing more practical, less-ambitious self-driving car services, said former members of the project and other people familiar with the situation. Bloomberg’s Alistair Barr and Alex Webb have more on "Bloomberg West.” — Bloomberg

Chris Urmson, director of the Self Driving Cars Project at Google, speaks to the media at a preview of Google’s prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California on September 29, 2015. — Reuters pic