Putting the Autonomous Car Before the Horse

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Waymo has been testing its self-driving cars in D.C. for years. Bill Clark/AP

Good morning, D.C. In today’s newsletter: An inside look at Waymo, Tom Sietsema’s favorite banh mi and new Commander Stefon Diggs.

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Self-driving cars aren’t yet legal in D.C., but that’s not stopping Waymo.

The Google-owned autonomous car company is building out three new maintenance and charging facilities in D.C., and using them to lay the political and practical groundwork for what it hopes will be approval in the fall of a D.C. Council bill to legalize passenger service.