> ”Full self driving" is another example; your car won't be doing this, but companies will brag about limited roll-outs of niche cases in dry, flat, places that are easy to navigate.

Not expecting my car to be self-driving anytime soon, but I have understood there is actual working robotaxi service in San Francisco which is not easy or flat? I think we can’t keep saying self driving cars will never happen when this kind of thing already exists.

It's true that SF isn't flat, but it's incredibly well mapped, it never snows and you don't have to worry about roads ravaged by frost-heaves. There's a reason that the new Doordash automated delivery service is starting off in Phoenix and not Boston for example.