Tesla is taking a minimalist approach to every important factor: Specialized vs unmodified production cars; back seat in-vehicle UI + app vs app-only for sittin

Tesla is taking a minimalist approach to every important factor: Specialized vs unmodified production cars; back seat in-vehicle UI + app vs app-only for sitting in back; multiple sensor types vs camera-only; intensive mapping of a service area vs crowdsourced; only Waymo-owned vehicles vs private cars seconded to the service. The biggest small detail is that Waymo's expansion is gated on achieving performance goals like very little need for remote supervision because Google won't hire a building full of remote monitors. Tesla claims this will be possible "by next year."