Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
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#2TLDR:
* People can apply to use/borrow a Waymo vehicle (RX450 or Pacifica) for some period of time.
* "as part of this early trial, there will be a test driver in each vehicle monitoring the rides at all times."
* Limited to Phoenix metro area for the time being.
* You apply here: https://waymo.com/apply/
* Waymo will be adding 500 more of the Pacifica minivans for this program.
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#3That the author even uses Uber as a rival to Weymo demonstrates their lack of awareness in the industry.
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#4How will self-driving cars affect society? Trying to wrap my head around the bigger picture.
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#5That the author even uses Uber as a rival to Weymo demonstrates their lack of awareness in the industry.
How so?
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#6Self-driving cars have been in the development phase for so long, I'm really excited to see them start rolling out in these beta tests.
I'm curious what sort of unconsidered edge cases they'll find out in the real world. I'm sure test passengers are much more "disciplined" than real world ones.
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#7That the author even uses Uber as a rival to Weymo demonstrates their lack of awareness in the industry.
How so?
Because Uber is ride sharing that is getting into self-driving vehicles, their money comes from the rides we take. Alphabet (Google) Is literally just testing and developing their own self-driving car technology. As far as we know they have no business model, yet.
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#8How will self-driving cars affect society? Trying to wrap my head around the bigger picture.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
Because Uber is ride sharing that is getting into self-driving vehicles, their money comes from the rides we take. Alphabet (Google) Is literally just testing and developing their own self-driving car technology. As far as we know they have no business model, yet.
Uber is spending VC bucks on their development.
They also spend VC bucks funding operations (so their huge losses aren't just because of investments in technology, they are a direct result of operating at a loss).
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#10Is there really a race to build self-driving cars? It seems that Waymo is eons ahead of everyone else.