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We Followed a Waymo Self-driving Car for Miles, Here's What we Saw

azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic · 247.6K views · 2018-12-05 · 3:29

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Overview

Reporters follow Waymo self-driving cars for more than 170 miles around Arizona to see how they handle lane changes, accidents and traffic. The short video shows real-world driving behavior in 2018.

On Hacker News

HN mostly cites it critically as evidence that early Waymos drove hesitantly, though one commenter points to the full video for context on a braking incident.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2024

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KennyBlanken · 2024-12 · Criticism

[LINK] > One of the world’s first fully-driverless taxi firms has been blocked from expanding its business in California, where several of its vehicles have recently been involved in accidents. > Waymo, which is the driverless car division of Google parent Alphabet, currently operates in parts of San Francisco. Attempts to roll-out its robotaxi service to Sunnyvale and Los Angeles were suspended for up to 120 days following a ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division (CPED). Then there's the federal investigation for Arizona crashes: [LINK] Your cars honking at each other in their own parking lot, at 4AM: [LINK] Your cars getting confused by a traffic cone: [LINK] Your cars barely able to make a lane change under the most ideal circumstances: [VIDEO] Unable to respond to the instructions of a police officer and it taking a minute and a half for employees to manually control the car: [LINK] Blocking a fire truck: [LINK] Breaking the law and getting pulled over by police for driving in the oncoming lane: [LINK] One of your cars cutting off another one of your own cars in a wildly unsafe, illegal maneuver: One of your cars running a red light: [LINK] ...and then a few minutes later, illegally entering an intersection and stopping, then continuing to block the intersection because someone made a u-turn 30 feet in front of it while it was stopped: [LINK] And here's the icing on the cake: your company harassing reporters, ca

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KennyBlanken · 2024-12 · Criticism

They can barely change lanes: [VIDEO] ...and are completely flummoxed by a couple of traffic cones closing off a lane: [LINK]

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tim333 · 2019-05 · Criticism

They have some quite impressive demo videos. Also they've been operating in demanding conditions compared to Waymo. eg NYC rush hour [LINK] Lane change in heavy traffic [LINK] while when reporters "Followed a Waymo Self-driving Car for Miles' the Waymos seemed to have some issues [VIDEO]

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