Comment by lemming

You say they have someone drive it.

I didn't say that. But they're not fully autonomous.

We aren’t arguing about pure autonomy, we are arguing about the method by which humans resolve the problems.

This whole subthread started with the assertion:

Just like we will never have fully self-driving cars...

So we did start out by discussing whether current Waymo is fully autonomous or not. It then devolved into nit-picking, but that was where the conversation started.

FWIW I agree that Waymo is an amazing achievement that will only get better. I don't know (or care, frankly) if they will ever be fully autonomous. If I could, I'd buy one of those cars right now, and pay a subscription to cover the cost of the need for someone to help the car out when it needs it. But it's incorrect to say that they don't need human operators, when they clearly currently do.