I've commented on a few Waymo threads about how I'm a total convert to self-driving cars (or at least to Waymos) so it does seem like it's possible for autonomo

I've commented on a few Waymo threads about how I'm a total convert to self-driving cars (or at least to Waymos) so it does seem like it's possible for autonomous cars to work at some level. On this subject, though, I happened to ride a Waymo to a destination only 1-mile away (hurt my knee last week! Not that lazy! Cost ~$8.00 btw) to meet a friend yesterday and it's the first time I got into the Waymo and didn't even watch the road because I guess I'm over the hump of worrying it's going to do something dumb (probably not sensible to give over so quickly, but just sharing how my behavior has changed over maybe 15-20 rides). The friend I met also happened to have a Model 3 with FSD and he offered to give me a ride home in it with FSD enabled. Aside from this blue prompt on the display that forces the driver to interact with the wheel to say "I'm still here" it didn't have any material difficulties with the route. Very short drive of course. But he did have to intervene because of the prompt at least 3 or 4 times, and even one time when we were stopped at a light FSD started turning the wheel even though we were going straight. You could see the car to the left of us get nervous because it noticed this wheel turn and so they moved over a little fearful that the Model 3 was going to go into their lane either right there at the red light or when it turned green. However, once the light turned green the wheel went straight and FSD just proceeded us through the intersection. An oddity for sure. We couldn't quite figure out why it thought it needed to turn the wheel. The reason I bring this up is to share a datapoint of 1, but also because it got me thinking about Tesla's rollout of robotaxis. It seems like before they actually let these cars drive without a driver they're going to have to remove that blue, take-the-wheel prompt while drivers are still in the driver's seat. And then they'll have to have a bunch (hundreds of thousands, millions?) of miles under their belt where there's zero/near-zero intervention from the driver to confidently deploy an actual robotaxi. So I guess the point at which you hear that Tesla no longer requires the driver to take the wheel is the point at which the public will know that Tesla now thinks it's getting close to having a robotaxi. That assumes Tesla does the sensible thing of course and takes that intermediate step. Would be odd to skip it for sure while you have a "safety driver" in the driver's seat.