Nobody's saying their cool little 3D renders aren't awesome looking, but that doesn't really mean much. Google has PR down to an art form, but if you asked Google to drive one of their cars to Chicago, they couldn't do it, no matter what the weather. They only work in a small nearly closed course environment.
> if you asked Google to drive one of their cars to Chicago, they couldn't do it
Nobody here is making that claim.
If Google operated a taxi service within Austin, we would say the car operates at level 3. SAE levels say nothing about where the car is operating:
"At SAE Level 3, an automated system can both actually conduct some parts of the driving task and monitor the driving environment in some instances, but the human driver must be ready to take back control when the automated system requests"
