My Waymo account [Phoenix market] is currently showing 225 rides; 1,143 miles; 3,912 minutes. Honestly I've never regretted summoning a Waymo for a ride. I was

My Waymo account [Phoenix market] is currently showing 225 rides; 1,143 miles; 3,912 minutes. Honestly I've never regretted summoning a Waymo for a ride. I was typically a public transit user, and bus/train operators are safe, reliable, and impassive people. I can recount with horror, all the bizarre, unbelievable, fucked-up situations that transpired when a human being was summoned with their own damn car (taxi/Lyft/Uber/Veyo). None of that shit goes down when I slide into a Waymo. Sure, there are technical issues and I have little quibbles with the quality of service provided, but at the end of the day, it gets me from Point A to Point B and it doesn't interpose a creepy 3rd party running the show (unless you consider Alphabet to be the sine qua non of creepy 3rd parties.) Alphabet has earned my confidence, from their mapping activities and Big Data capability, to all the other infrastructure and logistics necessary to run a project of this scale. Their deployment of Waymo has been simply an evolutionary step in the robot apocalypse, I mean 21st Century urban convenience landscape. I wouldn't accord any of the same confidence to Tesla or Uber due to the vastly different structure and scope of their business models. I just hope that Waymo is here to stay, because it really is working out well between us.