Driving into the future: Autonomous Vehicle expansion & safety

Getting where you need to go is becoming more high-tech every day. In a handful of cities around the country, you can already take a robotaxi with no driver.
And testing of these so-called autonomous vehicles, right on public roads, is expanding fast.
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At 1:57, Jeff Ferrah of the AVIA lists "driving while impaired" as something Waymos never do, but, if that is true, then how do Waymos get from where they become impaired back to their depots for maintenance? Let's be honest, Jeff, not all these vehicles are getting towed from the point where maintenance is first needed, and that means at least some Waymos are, in fact, driving while impaired. Waymo can estimate how many miles of impaired driving that is, but it's definitely not zero, and at least some of those cases of delayed maintenance are increasing the risk of accidents.