Very exciting news, as more people use autonomous vehicles, the less parking needs there will be and hopefully more parking lots can be reclaimed with plant life, that benefits the whole earth with better air and calming energy.
Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
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Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
#62Very exciting news, as more people use autonomous vehicles, the less parking needs there will be and hopefully more parking lots can be reclaimed with plant life, that benefits the whole earth with better air and calming energy.
Especially in Los Angeles where 14% of land is for parking. https://la.curbed.com/2015/11/30/9895842/how-much-parking-lo... The air quality is particularly bad in LA too. If more people used WayMo EV’s there would be a noticeable difference. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/report-says-la-has-mos...
How come? A car's emissions shouldn't change drastically whether it has a driver or not.
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The desirable parts of LA are tech heavy, just comes down to who can afford what right now But its good that people expect something else and that there is more variety in types of people
“desirable parts of LA are tech heavy” This is very subjective and depends heavily on the definitions of “desirable” and “LA”.
aside from such a wide range of parts, there is also a wide discrepancy in what LA natives do and care about, compared to what transplants do and make reference to. almost no overlap.
I think we can correlate what I'm referring to with the monthly rent though
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially in Los Angeles where 14% of land is for parking. https://la.curbed.com/2015/11/30/9895842/how-much-parking-lo... The air quality is particularly bad in LA too. If more people used WayMo EV’s there would be a noticeable difference. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/report-says-la-has-mos...
>air quality [...] If more people used WayMo EV’s there would be a noticeable difference. How come? A car's emissions shouldn't change drastically whether it has a driver or not.
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially in Los Angeles where 14% of land is for parking. https://la.curbed.com/2015/11/30/9895842/how-much-parking-lo... The air quality is particularly bad in LA too. If more people used WayMo EV’s there would be a noticeable difference. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/report-says-la-has-mos...
>air quality [...] If more people used WayMo EV’s there would be a noticeable difference. How come? A car's emissions shouldn't change drastically whether it has a driver or not.
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
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> That's a funny way to say the next biggest place with 300 days of sun per year. Why does that matter?
Self driving cars don’t work in rain/snow
Cruise is slightly better than FSD, but not by much. It's prone to driving really slowly and phantom braking, but at least it doesn't swerve into light poles or oncoming traffic like FSD does.
Waymo works in rain.
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
#67Surprised that no one has done a covert challenge of Waymo vs FSD 10.69.2.3 in a side by side comparison? Does that video exist?
That means FSD has to work only once for a YouTube video, but a Waymo has to work every single time as there’s no driver to rescue when things go wrong. So apples to oranges.
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
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#69Surprised that no one has done a covert challenge of Waymo vs FSD 10.69.2.3 in a side by side comparison? Does that video exist?
Probably not as it’s not a meaningful comparison. One is completely driverless (L4) and the other requires a driver with hands on the wheel ready to take over (L2). Removing the driver (safely and reliably) is like 99.99% of the problem in self driving. That means FSD has to work only once for a YouTube video, but a Waymo has to work every single time as there’s no driver to rescue when things go wrong. So apples to…
Re: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
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“Houston, TX Surface parking: 21.3% Garage parking: 3.7%” Parking is 25%, which is a more apples to apples comparison. More garages in LA?
I'm assuming "surface parking" is mainly parking lots - and not counting street parking - which is close to half of all street & sidwalk surface area.
That would require more parking width than travel lane width on any given segment with parking (to account for areas where parking is not permitted plus intersections). Few streets have less travel width than parking. Many have a multiple.