It's great for people to be dubious of self-driving capabilities, but if the manned driving trials were any indication, the biggest issue we're going to see is over-aggressive human drivers ploughing into over-cautious Waymo vehicles... I'm hoping the autonomous critics also take their fair share of human responsibility for the incredibly dangerous human component of auto accidents...

I have an idea, let's regulate these cars until they are perfect, then we can release them into the wild. The only problem is, they'll never be perfect. And if we want them close to perfect, it will take another 50 years. All the while the how many drunk drivers and texting drivers are killing our citizens? The reason the regulation is following Google's lead is that it's new technology. Google isn't following a path, they're creating a new one, right now. I want there to be regulation, but there is regulation, and these cars are already safer than a human driver so it's time to get these out there and start saving lives.

The sooner we take what constitutes as a human "driver" out of cars the better. We're very bad at driving compared to the WAYMOs.