[Retric]

I don't think people are going to enter their destination for every trip. So, people will still do some driving even with self driving systems.

On top of that most situations with disengagement have not resulted in crashes. Really it's failing to pay attention during normal driving that's most often at fault, a 'buzzing you need to pay attention now' system solves most of the problems even if the car is not driving it's self.

[stevenwoo]

You make fair points, but didn't Waymo first show cars with no steering wheel whatsoever as their target? I have only see the Waymo branded vans in recent months, not the tiny custom cars (forgot the name of them).

[Retric]

WePod and some other companies already have self driving buses doing limited routes in foot traffic. Which is basically the Waymo tiny car demo.

It turns out to be significantly easier problem than full speed road traffic. Which IMO is why google gave up on that concept demo.