> I think as long as roads are open to the public there will be some humans behind the wheel.

Pretty much every car will have a human driver. Autonomous vehicles don't work.

Waymo's cars are driven remotely by humans.

Is sometimes drawing a path on a screen and clicking execute really "driving" the car?

They've got 70ish people as operators controlling a fleet of thousands of cars. Does the operator have a desk with like 50 steering wheels he's using all the time?

AV operators will be a job in the future (its a real job today, as well). Instead of sitting behind the wheel of one cab all the time though, they'll just respond to the weird edge cases that creep up and validate things are working properly.

We still have people in charge of the street light operations. There is not nearly as much work to do anymore, so we don't have nearly as many of them.