That article does not answer any of the 3 questions I proposed.

It's an example of how easy it is to find some numbers they posted, countering that they "never" do

I'm not trying to answer your question because I don't want to put in the time with someone who seems to only want to be combative in conversation

Don't the HN guidelines have something about "assuming good faith"? I can't be arsed to check now because obviously the comment above is not in good faith.

/s

It's assume the best possible interpretation and the other commenter has provided evidence to the contrary through multiple posts

The guidelines explicitly say "Assume good faith":

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The guidelines don't say anything about being free to be a dick when the other person is being a jerk. They even say not to:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Case in point. Plugging your ears and shouting does not invalidate the question. These are very basic questions that, if Waymo were at all confident about their technology, would not hesitate to answer.

And most of these are just simple numbers! Like stating, the number of miles per intervention is 10. Yet that number is nowhere to be found from Waymo's press relations department.

Having seen how the sausage is made, a lack of confidence in what the numbers show is not why the information is withheld. The numbers are highly relevant to competitors and anything that could potentially be used to build a negative media narrative is very carefully considered before release.

Cruise had their numbers leaked during the incident last year and they came up in several negative media pieces despite being fairly good overall.