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Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology is here

Waymo · 2M views · 2017-11-07 · 2:48

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Overview

Waymo's 2017 announcement that its fully autonomous vehicles are test-driving on public roads with no one in the driver's seat. It gives a short overview of the project's history and plans.

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Cited as evidence of Waymo's progress in Arizona and its lead over competitors.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2020

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bhupy · 2020-06 · Reference

> The point is that when it comes online, they will have a huge fleet. This might be correct in a world with full-self-driving, though as others might point out, we're quite far away from that. Waymo is probably closer to full-self-driving than Tesla is [1]. If you're talking about just raw Tesla car ownership, then ride-sharing operations still requires a human being to be sitting in the driver's seat that expects to be fairly compensated, at which point you have the same supply growth problem that Uber/Lyft have. [1] [VIDEO]

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tim333 · 2020-02 · Reference

As to "tech people" falling for the hype, it all depends which particular hype but: "surprised if we saw fully self driving cars any time in the next 50 years." a couple of years after there have been self driving cars driving around Arizona [VIDEO] reminds me of quotes like "The aeroplane will never fly." — Lord Haldane, 1907 a while after the Wright brothers had done many flights. You could argue both the Wright brothers planes and the Arizona Waymos were a bit rubbish but these things tend to improve rapidly.

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ehsankia · 2018-03 · Reference

The same UI is shown in the Pheonix promotional video: [VIDEO] It seems like the it's the real UI currently used.

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