[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.