On: Waymo has no viable business model

There have been modern electric cars available for, let's say, 15 years now and I haven't seen a single practical automated charging system.

There have been plenty of proposals, like Tesla's snake robot or inductive undercar charging plans, but no actual production-ready solutions. But even if you had the magical autocharging robot that will not help with gasoline powered vehicles (like all of Waymo's) and you still would need dedicated real estate and charging stations to recharge these vehicles.

I’m pretty sure once self driving cars are really a thing for all consumers, it will coincide with the move over to EVs en masse (2030?).

The only reason no one finds automated plug-in charging necessary right now is simply because those cars don’t really need it yet.