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.