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Waymo has always been just a year or two from breaking through.

Google's gotten through the first 95% of the work, but the remaining 95% is gonna take awhile.

>>scarmi+(OP)
Dude they are running an open public taxi in Phoenix, it has the run of the whole city.

>>scarmi+(OP)
That maths sure make it a very hard problem to solve. But jokes aside I see your point. Isn’t that always the case with this kind of issues? Doing the first big chunk is relatively easy and then the final details are very hard?

>>jeremy+EC
Isn't Phoenix:

1. Car infested ergo perfect venue area for testing autonomous cars, since the infrastructure is through and through car oriented at the detriment of every other form of mobility (walking, cycling, buses, trams, trains, etc)?

2. Super hot and sunny, ergo no fog, no rain, no sleet, no ice, no special weather conditions to handle.

3. Flat like a pancake, making terrain management, coupled with the nice, wide roads from point #1, so super easy mode.

Let's see them scale Waymo to at least 3 out of the following: San Francisco, NYC, Bucharest, Istanbul, Mumbai, St. Petersburg, etc.

That could be at least a decade away.

>>oblio+Y81
Yes Phoenix is ideal, that is why they've been using it. I think it indicates they are more than 5% done though, is my point. Also they are operating fully autonomous public taxis in San Francisco, but not the run of the whole city, I think its just airport to downtown. But even navigating downtown SF I think is an accomplishment.