Comment by quanto

I am not sure what you are arguing against. Neither the author nor I stated or implied that Waymo is fully autonomous. It wasn't even the main point I made.

My point stands: Waymo has been technically successful and commercially viable at least thus far (though long term amortized profitability remains to be seen). To characterize it as a hype or vaporware of AGIers is a tad unfair to Waymo. Your point of high-latency "fleet response" by Waymo only proves my point: it is now technically feasible to remove the immediate-response driver and have the car managed by high-latency remote guidance only occasionally.