To me the real challenge is just getting local communities to allow Waymo. I live in Oakland and am not holding my breath.

The service is so good that citizens will ask for it and will be upset if a neighboring city has it, but they don't.

> the real challenge is just getting local communities to allow Waymo

This isn’t a real challenge. There are more cities that want to be early adopters (for the investment and jobs) than have a politically-active Luddite streak.

At the end of the day, we’ll do the labour-intensive work of development in the former and deploy to the latter once it’s efficiently scalable, probably with limited local labor (and thus consent) requirements.