“Self-driving cars are going to get here much faster than people think — we'll see them in three to four years.”

Sam AltmanCEO

President, Y Combinator

By October 2019 no driverless car was generally available: Waymo One launched in December 2018 with safety drivers behind the wheel, and Waymo only opened fully driverless rides to the public in a ~50-square-mile Phoenix-area geofence in October 2020, a year after Altman's deadline.