Waymo

[diplomat33]

Pretty funny April Fools and clever PR too.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774894711460729194

 

[EVNow]

Guess which Waymo here is not in Grandma mode ? What would @Bladerskb say if this was a Tesla ?

 

[Daniel in SD]

Guess which Waymo here is not in Grandma mode ? What would @Bladerskb say if this was a Tesla ?

You did complain that Waymo wasn't aggressive enough!
Definitely odd behavior. I guess it was thrown off by the Waymo stopping at the line instead of in the crosswalk (though we don't actually see that part in the video). Not in the training data.

 

[EVNow]

You did complain that Waymo wasn't aggressive enough!

The company ... not the car !

 

[diplomat33]

Waymo Zeekr vehicle have 6th gen hardware...more capable and cost effective - Dimitri dolgov

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775002355165204569

Source: Road Ahead interview with Waymo co-founder Sebastian Thrun

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775129892218421265

 

[Daniel in SD]

The company ... not the car !

think Waymo will have a problem with being too conservative (they have too much money they want to protect). That will make them nearly inoperable in high traffic markets of east & west coast. If you are not suitably aggressive, you can't make the needed turns, merges, lane changes. May be that's the reason why it sits at the intersection waiting to turn left too.

It needed to make that turn!
I agree that it was bizarrely aggressive. Weird that I don't see either of them signaling.
Looking forward to trying it out when I get off the waitlist.

 

[EVNow]

It needed to make that turn!

No - something was definitely wrong.

For eg. you don't run over a pedestrian because you needed to make a turn

ps : 2019 ! When Neroden was still around !!

 

[enemji]

to ride with us permanently

What does this mean?

 

[Bitdepth]

Guess which Waymo here is not in Grandma mode ? What would @Bladerskb say if this was a Tesla ?

I imagine something like "two irresponsible Tesla owners are sitting in the back seat while their vehicles on FSD beta attempts not to crash into each other".

But since FSDb is not L4, we would never know now, would we?

 

[Daniel in SD]

No - something was definitely wrong.

For eg. you don't run over a pedestrian because you needed to make a turn

ps : 2019 ! When Neroden was still around !!

Definitely a bug. My guess is that something happened before the video started. Maybe the other Waymo was sitting for a while waiting for the pedestrians standing at the corner.

 

[diplomat33]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775540266352414930

 

[Bitdepth]

Waymo and Uber are expanding on their partnership and offering Uber Eats food delivery with autonomous Waymo vehicles Starting today.

 

[diplomat33]

Dolgov shares video of Waymo car auto parking for delivery pick-up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775628966956785785

 

[Bitdepth]

Dolgov shares video of Waymo car auto parking for delivery pick-up.

That is a very clean parking maneuver. Took ~20 seconds from discovering where it wanted to park to completing the parking.

 

[spacecoin]

That is a very clean parking maneuver. Took ~20 seconds from discovering where it wanted to park to completing the parking.

I would have done it in half the time

 

[diplomat33]

Waymo robotaxis logged 1.4 million driverless ride-hailing miles between December and February, roughly a 42% increase from the prior quarter, according to data the company reported to the California Public Utilities Commission.

December was the first month Waymo reported carrying more than 100,000 passengers on driverless trips — the vast majority of which were on paid rides — and the Alphabet-owned company reported similar figures for January and February.

That quarterly haul of about 316,000 passengers was up 45% from the quarter covering September through November, when Waymo carried about 218,000 riders. The latest figures represent a huge jump from this time last year, when the company’s robotaxis shuttled about 13,000 people on unpaid rides.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-service-driverless-robotaxi-19386537.php

 

[Doggydogworld]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-service-driverless-robotaxi-19386537.php

That's a lot slower than the 10x/year growth they talked about last summer. More like 4x/year. IMHO they slowed dramatically when Cruise got sidelined.

At 4x/year they reach Uber size around 2030.

 

[spacecoin]

That's a lot slower than the 10x/year growth they talked about last summer. More like 4x/year. IMHO they slowed dramatically when Cruise got sidelined.

At 4x/year they reach Uber size around 2030.

I don’t think so…

 

[spacecoin]

News: Waymo starts charging for rides in LA in two days. Insane demand.

 

[diplomat33]

News: Waymo starts charging for rides in LA in two days. Insane demand.

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That's great news. Waymo just keeps marching forward. With the way, Waymo is increasing number of paid rides, I am optimistic Waymo will achieve profitability sooner than people think, especially when the much cheaper Zeekr vehicle is mass deployed. I don't think it will take a decade for Waymo to achieve profitability as some seem to suggest.