Upvote sir for extremely good points. Researching it some more led me to an article from October 2017: "Waymo says its cars can handle nighttime driving and li

Upvote sir for extremely good points. Researching it some more led me to an article from October 2017: "Waymo says its cars can handle nighttime driving and light rain, but its cars will be geofenced" [0]. That should handle a decent amount of it but I definitely agree that the whole "what to do mid taxi service if conditions become terrible or where to park the fleet" will still be a thorny problems for some time. That being said, unless you think self driving cars will never be able to handle 99% of situations, those problems will just cause the self driving car revolution to happen more gradually as they slowly adopt more and more unique situations (which seems to be their current strategy starting with phoenix). During that gradual progression, I just see them slowly eating away at ubers/lyfts market as more markets become locally profitable when they can adapt to the local conditions/economics (and it is not like some other companies self driving tech will be instantly be able to handle more complex situations in a local market that the leader of the market cannot handle) [0]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/5-things-we-learned-from-waymos-big-self-driving-car-report/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/5-things-we-learned-fro...