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Most new tech takes about 5-8 years to be available in Europe nowadays.

For good reason sure, but might as well accept it.

VW has a similar service and want to roll out autonomous driving next year in Hamburg.

Waymo started this in 2018, and expanded significantly 2020 onwards.

Do you see what I mean by 5-8 years?

That service of VW was started 2019 in Hamburg (but I know some years earlier it started in another town).

Also VW invested long time in autonomous driving.

I wouldnt be sure if Google has such an advantage.

It's very limited geographically at this point. It's pretty clear it's going to be a long time before it's something near-universal and something you can just do with your own car--at a similar price point--today.

I am from Europe and managed to try Waymo in SF recently. Not sure why you couldn’t.

I think you misread. If they go to the Bay Area they would like to try it.