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They did change this, I checked back during Thanksgiving break and it was still telling me I had to be approved.In fact, anybody can download the Waymo One app now. If you are not in the geofenced area, you will get a message saying you need to be in the area. But if you download the app today and go to the service area Phoenix, you can summon a driverless ride any time.
They did change this, I checked back during Thanksgiving break and it was still telling me I had to be approved.
Today it says that I can use it in the "Metro Phoenix" area.
That's a step in the right direction.It says that I am good to go when I am in "the metro phoenix area".
That is the ~$3.5 billion dollar question ( I think Google spent more than that, but this is the number I found online Companies Have Spent $16 Billion on Self-Driving-Car Research )I'm doubtful that you can get a ride without a safety driver easily. There are reports of people using the service and getting a safety driver. The number of videos without a safety driver are surprisingly tiny. Hopefully that will change soon.
Waymo, the self-driving moonshot from Alphabet (a.k.a. Google's parent company), has spent about $3.5 billion testing self-driving Chrysler Pacificas in Silicon Valley and Phoenix. It has a "self-driving" ride-hailing service. No one is at the wheel, but it's monitored remotely, and there's a chase vehicle in case the van gets confused and a human has to leave the chase car and get in the van to take over.
I did not know that info in the bolded portion... So for every driverless "robo-taxi" they have a chase vehicle... this seems silly! I hope it is not the case now.
We've seen the chase vehicle for some rides. I don't know if it is for every single robotaxi.
For consumer cars, it is not an issue since the driver can take over. But in the case of driverless robotaxis, you need a plan if the car does get stuck. You can't just leave the customer stuck in a robotaxi on the side of the road. I am sure Waymo will wean off using chase vehicles over time as the ride-hailing gets better.
Im sure they can just remotely take over in that case...needing someone to chase and manually take over sounds silly when the thing has cameras and an internet connection.
Im sure they can just remotely take over in that case...needing someone to chase and manually take over sounds silly when the thing has cameras and an internet connection.
I'm doubtful that you can get a ride without a safety driver easily. There are reports of people using the service and getting a safety driver. The number of videos without a safety driver are surprisingly tiny. Hopefully that will change soon.
But yes the number of videos on the internet is small. That is just because the driverless rides are boring, and people are not traveling / going out due to covid.
Isn't it about time to say something about the true cause of those speed limits? If they are, in fact, too low, why is there no political pressure to raise them?
In Germany in densely populated areas the reason is sometimes noise reduction for the people living next to the street. So we cannot just discuss drivability.
... [a] CEO who makes crazy promises that he can't keep.
This thread might suit your needs better:
Autonomous Car Progress
@diplomat33 will help you with your arguments.
There is a fine difference I am not sure if I made it clear. I really am not so familiar with Lidar, only know that it has draw backs, such as it cannot penetrate fog, and will treat plastic bag as solid material.
But can anybody say that they know 100% of FSD in Tesla and that Lidar will add absolute no value to it down the road?
My point is not so much about whether Lidar is good or bad. My point is if Tesla decide to add Lidar later on, then it is a show of strength, not so much of an engineering failure.
Seems like plenty of vehicles fall into this definition for years/decades, e.g., airport people movers. Do there need to be additional descriptors/qualifiers to separate out what Waymo is doing vs the old vehicles vs those that are more capable than Waymo?"Fully autonomous driving technology is designed so that a human driver does not take over the maneuverability of a vehicle. You do not need a license to take a ride in a vehicle with autonomous driving technology, and your hands never need to touch a steering wheel."
Seems like plenty of vehicles fall into this definition for years/decades, e.g., airport people movers. Do there need to be additional descriptors/qualifiers to separate out what Waymo is doing vs the old vehicles vs those that are more capable than Waymo?
Waymo has announced it will stop using the term "self driving" because it's become misleading, like "autopilot". Instead it will say "fully autonomous" to make it clear that it is talking about cars which completely drive themselves without human oversight or intervention.