I’ve been in the Bay Area for a few days, so I have been finding reasons to jump into Waymo cars. In short, the experience is magical. It works. The car drives well. As a passenger, the rear screen tells you where you are and how the journey is going. The privacy is, frankly, marvellous. The cars have been pretty clean, better than the average Uber, but not as immaculate as a high-end Wheely. Pricing? Hard to tell. It felt like the same price as an Uber Comfort.
Roger Drew
2 周
May be ok in a city that has maintained it's roads, here in the UK with most of lights tuned off on major routes, no proper road marking or white line, no cats eyes, thousands of pot holes and people who have no idea of how to drive properly. I'd give a driverless car 10 minutes before is craps itself, blown half of it's circuits and is in a ditch because it couldn't deal with the constant variables experienced when driving in the uk.
Aubree Arias ??
3 周
Very cool! Do you think the price point should be CHEAPER than Uber given the cost saving vs human drivers? I also think that would help with adoption rates given the challenge we have trusting a fully automated solution... Very cool to see this in action!
Feels like a machine to percolate atomistic, empathy-free, libertarian politics in.
Canary Songs
2 周
What if someone deficates or throws up in it, does it do back to the depo automatically for cleaning?
Oliver Ogg
3 周
I look forward to the version with the singing Azeem
Never - I'd rather jump into a cab driven by a hard working driver knowing my fare will go towards putting food on the family table.
Steve Donelan
2 周
Just another nail in the coffin of human interaction... All this AI and computer/electronic emergence is ridiculous.... Try improving facilities and opportunities for the human race instead of trying to make it redundant.... Every single place you look.... Slow down before Terminator becomes a reality !!!!!!
No. I'd rather not get stuck in a car park filled with other driverless cars, honking their horns at each other all night.
Quality Leader at Tenneco
2 周My only concern is one based on Lessons Learned in the aviation industry with auto-pilot. Most in-flight accidents and near-misses, I have read recently is attributed to Pilots not applying Situation Awareness during auto-pilot activation. Simply put - do not rely on tech to do everything for you. This leads me to the question - " How does Driverless Tech address the issue of Situation Awareness? Are the sensors strong enough to detect abnormalities and does the software cover such evasive actions?". I will leave you with this caveat - I had the opportunity to speak with a corporate lawyer at a social function (while on vacation) and he informed me that the legal focus currently is predominantly looking at the protection of companies offering such functionality as Driverless Tech (all possible ways they could be sued when things go wrong). I think we still have a way to go before I would feel comfortable getting into such a conveyance. ??