Credit where it's due: Tesla's driverless miles are growing fast, 30% in a single week, and Austin now has a real Tesla fleet carrying the public without anyone in the driver's seat. A year ago, that wasn't the case. But "never a real contest" is a strange thing to say when you're behind by 7x on weekly miles and 87x on cumulative miles, and your one win depends on comparing your newest week to your rival's data from last spring. What stands out to us is the type of autonomy Tesla is deploying. In 2020, Musk wrote that "Waymo is impressive, but a highly specialized solution," and that Tesla's approach was "a general solution." For years, Tesla fans dismissed Waymo as a geofenced system that only worked in mapped areas with lots of restrictions. Now look at Tesla's Robotaxi: geofenced, no highways, avoiding railroad crossings, taking 70 minutes for 10-minute trips, and limited by hours because the software isn't ready for anything with "the slightest possible risk." By Musk's own old definition, that's a highly specialized solution. Waymo is the one driving on freeways now.