Ten Lessons From 200 Million Autonomous Miles, Translated for Retail

Waymo published ten lessons from driving over 200 million fully autonomous miles, and I could not stop reading them as retail lessons. Sensor fusion, keeping your map current, refusing black boxes, closed-loop simulation, and the point that a supervised pilot flatters the system all land the same way in a store as on a street. I wrote up the translation, with the startups already building each piece, from shelf and people sensing through simulation, agentic automation, governance, and physical AI.