Folks who are pessimistic on driverless cars appear to move the goals on the last 1% repeatedly. Self driving cars are driving themselves around Phoenix and SF right at this minute.
https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/self-driving-cars/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-wa...
But that doesn't change the fact that human beings are extremely safe drivers. NHTSA reports less than 2 deaths per 100 million miles driven each year from 2010 to 2020: https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/National%20Statistics.pdf
They've had no fatalities, which is great (and certainly better than other "self-driving" car options)! But it's hard to make really good comparisons as long as Waymo is off by a factor of millions of miles.
Mo cars - Way Mo problems.
It's here. Tesla (and maybe Cruise) may well be sucking at it, but Waymo isn't.
This argument again. It's so incredibly obvious that it does not apply, but so many people seem to think "oho, but some humans can't do <thing no AI can do>! That means you think those humans aren't intelligent either!" is such a gotcha.
Just about any human can be taught to drive in the snow. The capability is there; the skill just hasn't been developed. Take a Californian to Upstate NY, force them to commute 40 minutes to work for several winters, and they will learn (or they'll die, I guess).
Take a self-driving car from LA to Syracuse and force it to drive in snow for years, and all it will do is crash or refuse to try. We do not yet (to the best of my knowledge) know if it will be possible to teach self-driving cars to drive in snow. It seems likely, but it hasn't yet been achieved, and in a field like this, "haven't achieved it yet, despite trying" and "don't know if it can be done" are very close together.