Hundreds Are Alreadying Using Waymo's Driver-less Taxis In Arizona

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Hand Gestures And Horses: Waymo’s Self-Driving Service Learns To Woo The Public

"On a sunny spring day in suburban Phoenix, a white minivan stops at a crosswalk to let a man pass. He gives the vehicle a wave, signaling it should go ahead — which it does, until the pedestrian suddenly steps off the curb and dashes through the crossing. The van, sporting the green and blue logo of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, brakes to a halt."

The main problem they have seems to be people trying to cause accidents deliberately.

 

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Cool. We already knew of course that Waymo was accepting passengers for their self-driving taxi service on a small scale. What is the most interesting about this article to me is the interaction between the self-driving cars and other cars and the public. One of the best things about Waymo is that they are really helping us explore what it will really look like to have robotaxis in an urban environment, not just the technical aspects of doing self-driving but also the social aspects.