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Yeah, but the hype is that they are right around the corner.

According to who?

Waymo committed and failed to launch a public driverless taxi service in 2018. Cruise is still publicly committing to 2019 although it's widely believed they will miss that mark. Zoox says 2020. Argo is aiming for 2021. Not to mention whatever timeline Musk tweets for Tesla's constantly moving target.

There are more, so there is a lot of hype. Otherwise how would these companies be raising billions of dollars on unproven technology?

So what they should just stop and not develop it? What is your point?

I was just answering the question of the parent comment.

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