I think driver intervention will go down once you tell ppl they can just stay on their phones all the time.

A recent rider video in a Waymo car showed pretty outstanding handling of unpredictable pedestrian behavior. One example of pedestrians partly hidden and then darting across the path of the car from between parked cars; another of pedestrian making to dart through and not going through with it; another of pedestrians hesitating (or easy to confuse with hesitating). The response to potentially dangerous pedestrian situations was noticeable and impressive. IMO much better than many human drivers would have. The Waymo car was hyper-alert and taking in a lot of clues - absolutely at the level of a hyper-alert human.