I see driverless cars all the time in San Francisco and I'm eagerly awaiting the regulatory decisions that will allow them to be widely available in the bay area at large.
Yes and people have been eagerly awaiting the broader adoption of this allegedly inevitable technology for a decade now, which is exactly my point
They are not actually driverless, they have remote human operators for the edge cases.
It's not driverless until you can sleep while it drives.
Until you can sleep on the road.
Such cars are already operating in shanghai. It's not talked about much in the west media, but that's just how news is today. Achievements are only so when done by the west!
Driverless car's only real obstacle is regulatory acceptance, not technical.
Can’t you? They’re taxis right?
Car needs to drive me to work and then go back home to charge.
Yay twice as much traffic!
Do you know what Waymo is?
It's not driverless unless it doesn't have a driver. Some poor guy in hydrobad 'monitoring' (read frequently taking over from) ten cars at a time, while being paid a statistically insignificant portion of a western taxi drivers salary does not count as 'self driving'.