Waymo is too deep in their complex hardware stack to do a hard about face at the moment.
Waymos are geofenced, restricted to certain roads, and have remote humans in the loop at lot more than most people assume.
Tesla's current robotaxi deployment is also geofenced and monitored by humans -- moreso than Waymo, even -- but of course Tesla superfans always conveniently leave that out of the narrative.
They will turn of the supervision requirements soon, and suddenly there will be hundreds of thousands of teslas that can drive themselves.
The skepticism is hard to get.
Yes, because you're confusing "can generally make the decisions necessary to drive by itself" with "can be trusted to drive by itself with a non-attentive human occupant".
> They will turn of the supervision requirements soon
Oh, totally; this year, right?
The complete lack of self awareness is absolutely astounding.
Waymos get stuck in weird situations every day. They need intervention, even on their guardrails. FSD is of course not perfect, but yes they have obviously cracked the code (it’s obvious if you use it or get beyond the groupthink here), and are being cautious with turning off supervision requirements. As they should.