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by ______-_-______ 1570 days ago
I don't think it's that insanely ambiguous.

If the car moves extremely slowly in a major city, it would get banned after a handful of traffic jams, and so wouldn't be commercially available. And anyways no company would risk the bad PR of launching a car that tops out at below the speed limit.

If the car calls itself a tow truck, it has obviously failed to drive itself.

If the car is programmed to avoid tricky roads, it can't "drive everywhere in all conditions" per SAE.

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Exactly. "All conditions" means all conditions. Once a self-driving 4WD truck can be relied upon to get me over Echo Summit pass on US-50 during chain control / whiteout blizzard conditions, then maybe, just MAYBE I'll start to take it seriously. "Full" self driving, at least as of 2022, relies too heavily on all cows being spherical.
Great user name!