According to a new York times article recently, Waymos vehicles are currently driving on average 5600 miles between user intervention.

For Uber this number was 13

5600 miles starts becoming "I need to use the wheel only 4 times a year" territory.

> 5600 miles starts becoming "I need to use the wheel only 4 times a year" territory.

It sounds like you're saying I will very likely die 4 times a year.

If anything, perhaps the better performing algorithms will lead to more complacency (inattention) on the part of the driver...

Sort of a Catch-22? (Or is there a better analogy I'm not thinking of.)

Call me a Luddite, but I think I would prefer to steer the car myself, thank you. When someone says, self-driving car, I assume they mean a taxi, bus or train: all well-proven technologies.

Well to be fair Waymo drivers aren't dying 4 times a year, it could be that the car just pulls over.

I agree that this isn't enough for full autonomy. And that partial autonomy can lead to false security. But I bet there are a lot of drivers who have more than 1 incident every 5k miles.

Are all 4 interventions safety-critical? They may simply be a case of the car having trouble finding the way out of a parking lot for example.