Some of the rides going forward will include safety drivers, but no, this announcement is about how they took the “specialist”/driver/human safety operator out

Some of the rides going forward will include safety drivers, but no, this announcement is about how they took the “specialist”/driver/human safety operator out of the car for the first time in San Francisco. Edit: looking at the full context of that quote, they’re talking about their plan for removing the safety driver in downtown Phoenix. >Our commitment to Phoenix and the community there remains strong, and we’ll soon be expanding to another area: Downtown Phoenix. Just as we’ve done before, we'll start with Waymo employees hailing trips with autonomous specialists behind the wheel, with the goal of opening it up to members of the public via our Trusted Tester program soon after.