[Retric]

There are fully self driving cars on the road today. They don’t have even close to global coverage, but empty cars are driving on public streets.

Extending these limited trials to every road in the world isn’t going to be fast, but a few cities with zero human taxi drivers could happen surprisingly quickly.

[warning26]

Right, but those are fragile. Geofenced, unable to drive in inclement weather, speed capped, etc. To get to 100% self driving, you need a lot more than what we’ve seen from, say, Cruise.

[Retric]

Much of that is simply how conservative GM has been with their testing. Extending geofencing just comes down to cost, but it’s pointless to map most locations when they aren’t looking to start selling any time soon.

The technology can also handle speed and inclement weather at least as well a people do, but they have little reason to push when they have little to gain and a lot to lose.