Waymo claims to have autonomously driven 8 million miles on public roads, and 5 billion miles in simulation. That doesn't seem "fast and loose". Has any commercial automaker conducted anywhere near that amount of testing?
And what is there go-to market strategy? Most cars that people can buy today have active safety features as an option or in the case of Toyota, a standard in all of their cars. How is google technology, which is so advanced, mitigating crashes and fatalities today?
And Tesla’s Autopilot has driven a bit over 1 billion miles autonomously, and a lot more than that in “shadow mode” where autopilot runs without doing anything while humans are in control.
I can write 200 million tests for my library but that doesn't mean anything.