You didn't really address the meat of the comment: The adage "do things that don't scale" comes to mind. If your options are "have tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles" or "have none", I'm not sure how the second is better.
Waymo and cruise especially, but even a number of others, have demonstrated better autonomy than Tesla. Musk has been claiming full self driving is 6 months away for 5 years now, and he hasn't gotten that much closer.
> Waymo and cruise especially, but even a number of others, have demonstrated better autonomy than Tesla.
Have they? They have a different approach where they focus huge effort on individual Geo-fenced locations and they both are losing 100M of $ every year. Neither has given any timeline for general availability in all locations.
The race, as far as I am concerned is still open. It is not at all clear to me that Waymo is ahead at what actually matters.
> Musk has been claiming full self driving is 6 months away for 5 years now, and he hasn't gotten that much closer.
The claim they made no progress is objectively false.
> They have a different approach where they focus huge effort on individual Geo-fenced locations
Where they actually have driverless vehicles. That's the key difference. Waymo and cruise have demonstrated driverless vehicles. People get driverless taxi rides today from waymo, and I think cruise as well. Tesla doesn't. It's still sitting in driver assist land and isn't particularly better than other luxury vehicle driver assist.
> The claim they made no progress is objectively false.
Waymo and cruise especially, but even a number of others, have demonstrated better autonomy than Tesla. Musk has been claiming full self driving is 6 months away for 5 years now, and he hasn't gotten that much closer.