Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona
This appears to go against Rodney Brooks' (former director of MIT's CSAIL, member of NAE, and a robotics expert) predictions, which was just published last month: https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/"NET (No Earlier Than) 2022""First driverless "taxi" service in a major US city, with dedicated pick up and drop off points, and restrictions on weather and time of day.""The pick up and drop off points will not be parking spots, but like bus stops they will be marked and restricted for that purpose only"A possible resolution is in the case that he meant somewhere more ‘major’ than Phoenix, AZ (1.6 million population; 5th largest city in the US), but that is a bit hand-waving.Any insight or comment for this?