> 5600 miles starts becoming "I need to use the wheel only 4 times a year" territory.

It sounds like you're saying I will very likely die 4 times a year.

If anything, perhaps the better performing algorithms will lead to more complacency (inattention) on the part of the driver...

Sort of a Catch-22? (Or is there a better analogy I'm not thinking of.)

Call me a Luddite, but I think I would prefer to steer the car myself, thank you. When someone says, self-driving car, I assume they mean a taxi, bus or train: all well-proven technologies.

Well to be fair Waymo drivers aren't dying 4 times a year, it could be that the car just pulls over.

I agree that this isn't enough for full autonomy. And that partial autonomy can lead to false security. But I bet there are a lot of drivers who have more than 1 incident every 5k miles.

Are all 4 interventions safety-critical? They may simply be a case of the car having trouble finding the way out of a parking lot for example.