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TV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco

ABC7 News Bay Area · 1.5M views · 2023-06-29 · 5:01

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Overview

An ABC7 News Bay Area reporter rides in a driverless Waymo robotaxi through San Francisco and documents the trip, including a couple of awkward moments. It is a short TV news segment showing what a robotaxi ride is actually like.

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Cited in self-driving threads as a firsthand look at robotaxi rides, mostly to point out its glitches and doubts about readiness.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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Self-driving & autonomous vehicles
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What people said

fragmede · 2023-12 · Recommendation

I summon a Waymo car every few days, and it takes me from point A to point B for about the same price as an Uber or Lyft. This only works so long as point A and B are both in San Francisco, but for an average person in San Francisco with access to the app, self-driving cars are already here. You can argue that person isn't average for a number of reasons, but the cars are real and giving rides to members of the general public. [VIDEO] is a news reporter's video of taking a ride in one, so you can see what it's like to ride in one. She's a news reporter and thus not your average person because she has access to Waymo because she's a reporter, but members of the general public are also getting access and are able to do this as well. After watching that, I think a reasonable average person could believe that self driving cars are here. As was said upthread, the future is here but unevenly distributed.

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freediver · 2024-01 · Criticism

I too did not realize Waymo is operating in SF and looked for some videos on YT and found this. It paints not so rosey picture about it: [VIDEO]

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paganel · 2023-10 · Criticism

Based on this recent-ish YT [1] video Waymo is also crap, just as Cruise is, as any car that stops at a green light, on the left-lane, is a danger to all the other drivers it shares the road with. [1] [VIDEO]

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