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How scalable is this technology? From my experience at an AV company, every deployment site had to be mapped, and after deployment, sites still needed remote teleoperators to occasionally adjust waypoints and resolve stops.

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The word "scalable" tends to be a shibboleth for people with certain unchangeable views on the industry. It's scalable in the sense that you can have vastly more cars than humans and the process to get them operating in a new area is fairly straightforward. It's not scalable in the sense of the company being fully automated so that every step can operate without human intervention, like virtually every other company on Earth.

Waymo's relatively rapid geonet expansion suggests that they have either improved their mapping productivity substantially or gone fully map-less.

I can't speak to their RVA operations.

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