>They surely have as Waymo have a much better safety record than Tesla

Tesla is already closing in on Waymo to within a factor of 2[0], and this is less than 6 months in, with Waymo having 125 million autonomous miles and Tesla having under a million. Bet on whichever horse you want, but this trend is not looking good for Waymo.

  >It seems obvious to me 

Oh thank goodness! Fortunately this style of argument has never been wrong before. ;)

[0] https://mashable.com/article/tesla-robotaxis-with-human-safe...