Your comment makes no sense. Besides the fact that this is showing Lidar scans with depth and 3D textures (does look cooler), the relevant part which is feature detection is a lot poorer. It doesn’t seem to detect lane markers or boundaries, sidewalks, traffic signs, or show path estimates like you can clearly see in the Tesla video. Plus the texturing implies the route is pre-mapped while Autopilot is doing all the work in real time.
Your comment just doesn't make any sense in context of the linked video. I can only assume you did not watch the video. I have uploaded the most important scenes to imgur so you don't have to waste your time finding the key scenes. The results will surprise you because they show exactly all the features that you claimed that google didn't have. https://imgur.com/a/6zHt8vP
In the Waymo video there are vector narrow lines added on top of the broken white line of the image view, there are also a vector boundary of the centered line and boundaries, and 3D box for cones. You are clearly not looking closely enough, or might not want to.
First Mover Advantage is still pretty important though.
Tesla is selling cards today, Waymo is not. Tesla's cars are good-enough for most of the buyers so Waymo's technical superiority has to bs much much better warrant the attention and change in public perspective.
On very important thing is tesla has established that your will get better with software updates over time. Other cars have nice adaptive cruise control and self-driving tech but the thought that the car you bought today can in a few months drive better is a massive psychological advantage imo. I don't think Waymo can compete on self-driving features anymore. They have to make the better car and driving experience as a holistic package to stick
> Why is the natural assumption that everyone will own their FSD car?
Great point.
Tesla exists for people who want to own/drive their cars with cool tech and the dream of FSD down the line via a magical update
Waymo's launched Waymo One as a taxi service but it's only available in one region. My understanding has been that they want to buy a fleet of cars, outfit them with their FSD tech for a taxi service? (So competing with Ridesharing services as an autonomous alternative)
There is certainly plenty of room in the market for people both models
