Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
1–10 of 520 posts
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#2> "we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer"
they've been pretty cautious on predictions after the AV hype boom and bust a couple years ago. 10x in a year is an ambitious goal.
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#3> "we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer" they've been pretty cautious on predictions after the AV hype boom and bust a couple years ago. 10x in a year is an ambitious goal.
10,000 trips in electric vehicles.
Self-driving EV’s in all major cities would be a big win for the climate and the air quality.
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#4> "we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer" they've been pretty cautious on predictions after the AV hype boom and bust a couple years ago. 10x in a year is an ambitious goal.
10,000 trips in electric vehicles. Self-driving EV’s in all major cities would be a big win for the climate and the air quality.
And pedestrian/cyclist safety
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#5I live inside the original area in Phoenix where they did their training. I have to give kudos where it's due. I originally _hated_ their cars constantly driving around our neighborhood, but I was persuaded to try one a few weeks back. It completely changed my mind. They are now my favorite way to get around. I am a very happy, frequent customer and hope they keep adding coverage and more cars. This is absolutely the future I want to live in.
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#6> "we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer" they've been pretty cautious on predictions after the AV hype boom and bust a couple years ago. 10x in a year is an ambitious goal.
10,000 trips in electric vehicles. Self-driving EV’s in all major cities would be a big win for the climate and the air quality.
It's probably more of a mixed bag.
Self-driving car fleets probably increase suburbization in the same way that trains created suburbs long ago.
Depending on how it breaks out, "more space per person at similar total environmental impact" is a quality of life win but not a climate-change-fighting one.
Pedestrian safety and other externalities are probably a big win, still.
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#710,000 trips / week is impressive. How many vehicles is this?
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
10,000 trips in electric vehicles. Self-driving EV’s in all major cities would be a big win for the climate and the air quality.
And pedestrian/cyclist safety
Not to mention everyone else who is not driving a 9000 lb Hummer - e.g. see how fear of being squished by a giant SUV dominates the discussion here:
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#9I live inside the original area in Phoenix where they did their training. I have to give kudos where it's due. I originally _hated_ their cars constantly driving around our neighborhood, but I was persuaded to try one a few weeks back. It completely changed my mind. They are now my favorite way to get around. I am a very happy, frequent customer and hope they keep adding coverage and more cars. This is absolutely the…
Why did you hate them at first? What about the experience of using the service changed your opinion?
Re: Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
#10I live inside the original area in Phoenix where they did their training. I have to give kudos where it's due. I originally _hated_ their cars constantly driving around our neighborhood, but I was persuaded to try one a few weeks back. It completely changed my mind. They are now my favorite way to get around. I am a very happy, frequent customer and hope they keep adding coverage and more cars. This is absolutely the…
For those of us not located in areas where Waymo is available, do you mind elaborating on why this is your favorite way to get around? As compared to Uber, Lyft, etc.