needs work lol...

 

Yep.....that's why I don't trust self-driving cars.

 

Karen thinks it's easy.

She has no idea. Lol
Maybe the car didn't like her. Haha

 

User stupidity and editorial hit piece- she will have had to accept the walk (and in fact the confusion at the start of the booking was her glossing over that). Plus she's so annoying I'd have dropped her off a walk away too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDriving..._inside_waymo/

 

Wow just wow. I will keep my mouth shut. Thanks for sharing bit.

 

here's a Waymo working in San Francisco


And here's one arriving at that museum the journalist couldn't work out how to get to

 

San Francisco may soon get these monstrosities 24/7. Here's an article just published today on that subject.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...-waymo-cruise/

San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming.

To their dismay, local officials have no control over whatever the state decides

SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon here, a driverless car jammed itself between a lane of traffic and a painted red curb for several minutes. The Waymo vehicle parked itself diagonally, its rear sticking into the travel lane, as it waited for three passengers to hop in.

“These are very impressive machines, but they have a lot of kinks that haven’t been ironed out,” said San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who watched as a bus slinked around the car and caused a brief buildup of traffic.

San Francisco’s windy, hilly and dense streets have been a prominent testing ground for new autonomous technologies, providing a glimpse into what a driverless future could look like in cities around the country as such vehicles become more widespread. But leaders here are fed up with the idea of being a guinea pig, saying the companies need to dramatically improve their AI-operated machines before rolling the technology out to the broader public.

Now the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is weighing whether to allow Waymo and Cruise to expand their operations to 24/7 paid passenger pickup anywhere in the city, from the current restrictions set by the state around payment and areas and hours of operation. If state regulators on July 13 approve the companies’ permit requests, as has been widely expected, both companies will essentially operate as Uber and Lyft currently do in San Francisco — just without the drivers.




That would make San Francisco among the first cities in the country to offer such widespread service, and help solidify Waymo and Cruise as leaders in the internationallycompetitive industry of self-driving cars. It also would mark a major win for the companies, which argue that their technology operates largely without issue and could ultimately lead to safer streets in a city that experienced a spike of human driver-related road fatalities in 2022.

But the city has little say in the matter, which is regulated by the state. Still, officials have written letters of protest to the state regulators, fixating on a recent spike in incidents: driverless cars that have snarled traffic, interrupted emergency scenes, disrupted bus routes and clashed with bicycles and pedestrians.




“We’ve had them run over our fire hoses. We’ve had our hoses get caught in their axles. We’ve had them block fire engines, and we’ve had them come into live active fire scenes,” said Jeanine Nicholson, chief of the San Francisco Fire Department. “We need something to change.”

She said the fire department has logged 66 incidents since May 2022, and that their frequency is accelerating. She added that she is “certain that we have not logged all of them.”

Nicholson fears even more havoc if state regulators approve the company’s request for expansion. Because the state is in charge of regulating autonomous vehicles, city officials are left with few options other than to tally up these incidents, complain loudly and warn that it’s only a matter of time before something catastrophic happens.

“I know this is the way the tech is going, and this is the way the industry is going, and that’s fine,” Nicholson said. “But don’t shove it down our throats.”

 

I'll just go ahead and say it and make everyone mad at me.

I don't want driverless taxis to succeed.

Yes, a technological marvel.
Yes, exciting tech.

But, if it takes jobs from drivers, I don't like it.

I'd rather see the tech used for hazardous driving applications.

I don't know, conflicted on this.

 

I am rooting for this tech. An fully autonomous car would be amazing. I absolutely love radar cruise + lane keep assist in my cars. If that can be made smarter so i don't have to focus as much, i would be all over it.

 

I am rooting for the tech too, maybe I should've mentioned that.

Just don't want to see it used to take jobs.

 

I'm with Margate. Jobs come first.

 

lol. she was weak but so was the waymo, including stopping at a green light for a while for no apparent reason.

 

think of all the horse poop shovelers, blacksmiths and others that lost their jobs when cars became a thing.

 

Yes, the green light delay was absolutely a waymo bug, but the rest of it was user error and was needlessly over dramatized.

The waymo went where it said it was going to go, chances are she got the destination wrong as waymo does know how to get to that location (see video posted above), and she agreed to the walk at the end before the trip commenced when she was faffing around with the app.

 

Living in SF, I see the Waymo and Cruise vehicles everywhere. It is quite interesting to see. There will be a huge learning curve to operate around them and for users in them. There was a Cruise vehicle that was signaling to change lanes, I presume it was trying to make a turn soon, but cars just kept zipping by it (including myself), and it kept being cautious and turned off it's blinker, turned it back on, and off again. lol. Im sure it missed its turn. If I was inside, I would be mad haha