> companies will brag about limited roll-outs of niche cases in dry, flat, places that are easy to navigate

According to their website, Waymo offers autonomous rides to the general public in Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles [1].

* San Francisco is an extremely hilly city that gets a fair bit of fog.

* Los Angeles has notorious traffic and particularly aggressive drivers.

* Atlanta gets ~50 inches of rain a year, more than Seattle [2].

[1] https://waymo.com/faq/#:~:text=Where%20does%20Waymo%20operat...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2024/09/03/whi...