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by ripe 1104 days ago
> Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today

Wonder why you can’t buy these L4 cars. No Level 4 cars are commercially available in the US. [1]

What you are describing are pilot programs propped up with a huge, expensive, unprofitable infrastructure of remote monitoring, support vehicles, and backup drivers. Waymo’s technology might be promising, but today these companies are bleeding money.

In contrast, Mercedes is selling retail cars with Level 3 features to consumers and taking responsibility for them.

[1] https://www.autopilotreview.com/self-driving-cars-sae-levels...