Comment by whaleofatw2022

I'm not them but I will answer from my viewpoint, as someone who has learned to appreciate the efficiency of AI coding.

First, my only interaction with a waymo was while driving in a low traffic location and it started with me having to be extra evasive with it's cautious style shifting into it deciding to pass me despite my safe but assertive driving normal stance.

Second, lots of people (myself included) remember the talk 5-7 years ago around autonomous cars and how the leaders of such companies were talking of futures where nobody (but the ultra rich, of course) would actually own a car and everyone would just use these autonomous car services.

Where that breaks down is how the surveillance state makes the average person worry how every trip could be tracked and used against them somehow or outright denied...

But also everyone sees how once vendors have a captive market they get squeezed.