Such cars are already operating in shanghai. It's not talked about much in the west media, but that's just how news is today. Achievements are only so when done by the west!

Driverless car's only real obstacle is regulatory acceptance, not technical.

It's not driverless unless it doesn't have a driver. Some poor guy in hydrobad 'monitoring' (read frequently taking over from) ten cars at a time, while being paid a statistically insignificant portion of a western taxi drivers salary does not count as 'self driving'.

Can’t you? They’re taxis right?

Car needs to drive me to work and then go back home to charge.

Do you know what Waymo is?

Until you can sleep on the road.