Yeah it’s not even covering all of LA despite the claim of “being in LA”. Just a mostly flat portion. It doesn’t go into the valley. It doesn’t really go into south LA. It doesn’t go east of the 5. It still doesn’t go to LAX either.
Building out depot and charging infrastructure and working with city officials are both slow processes, so I imagine you'll see them prioritize spreading out to a lot of cities first, in the most profitable areas (downtown), then expand the service area in each of them over time as they get more cars.
Yes, it's an early stage technology and the logistics of scaling is non-trivial. Yet, if you look at the numbers, they've been scaling surprisingly fast, at a sustained rate of 5x per year for 5 years in weekly paid rides.
People who live in snowy/icy areas will simply never have autonomous driving. Does that settle it? Or do we have to keep pointing out obvious limitations to cutting edge technology?
