The progress thus far has been very impressive but the ultimate product the average person imagines as a "self-driving car", one where you can literally devote zero attention and do something else entirely while being driven around (and that handles effectively any edge case), is still quite a ways off.

Waymo is that ultimate product. Obviously it's not everywhere and you can quibble about what "effectively any edge case" means, but it's close to human level at being able to handle whatever the streets of SF throw at it.

> able to handle whatever the streets of SF throw at it.

Not able to handle what the streets of Los Angeles throw at it, however.

Maybe if the Waymo deployed an inflatable dummy passenger people would be like "oh there's someone in that car, better not torch it"?

And yet human drivers keep using the LA streets, including human taxi drivers, while Waymo has paused.

Fantastic article but it'd at least be nice to credit Stripe for the original design.

I’ve had a similar thought regarding the 2020 presidential election. Had Trump and his administration properly handled the pandemic response (or never had to handle it in the first place) it’s quite likely he would’ve been re-elected. After having seen the events that transpired over the past month (to say nothing of the past four years) I can’t help but wonder if 400,000+ lives ended up being the cost to preserve democracy in the US.

It seems they're falling back to Mapbox when a dark theme is used, presumably because MapKit JS doesn't support any theming or styling of maps.

Good catch, I missed that. However, I guess that Apple will provide a dark mode for their map, too, at some point since they build dark mode into their OS(es?) anyway.

I'm sure this will come once @media(prefers-color-scheme) becomes more prevalent.

Won't take much time, since Safari betas already have it.

Maps on macOS already supports dark mode so it’s likely just a matter of time.