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Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
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#552Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These cars are literally unsupervised. Unsupervised in what sense? There's internal cameras that are periodically checked. Weight and seatbelt sensors that give alerts if a passenger is or puts objects in the drivers seat, or if too many individuals get in the car. I'd be shocked if a similar or greater level of observability doesn't also exist outside the car.
How do you remotely detect if car stinks or not?
They have sensors to do this. They also know how to cycle the cabin air completely from the Covid days.
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#553Comments are really underestimating Tesla FSD in here. As an owner and user of FSD, it's scary how quickly their new Neural Net version is improving. There's a reason Elon and other internal Tesla engineers are so bullish on it, they've seen the data on 12.5 and beyond. Once their 100,000 GPU cluster is complete this year, how many iterations until FSD is comparable to Waymo? One year? Maybe 3 years? The reason Waymo…
It could be better than Waymo today and it wouldn't matter. As long as Elon runs that compant with his middle finger extended to regulators, they'll never be allowed to do what Waymo has done by being so careful. Look at Cruise. They had actual robotaxis on the streets of SF and were firmly in second place. Then they had a bad accident and covered it up. Now they're set back by years and billions of dollars. Now imag…
the regulators deserve considerably worse than a middle finger
https://teamster.org/2023/05/teamsters-halt-waymo-in-san-fra...
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#554Living here for the last 10 years, it's been jarring how just in the last few years, driverless taxis went from "it'll never happen" to "is this the default now?" The Waymos are genuinely good drivers. I look forward to taking them every time.
We do appreciate your sacrifice, here in the EU.
Congrats on your breakthroughs in writing laws.
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#555I dont get why anyone cheers shit like this. It just takes jobs away from more people. You will just get more homeless and drug addicted people. And more rich techies. And it will make no difference to the rider - they get where they need to be either way. It's just another bit wealth transfer from poor to rich. Yet this is cheered.
> rich techies
nice, i love the creation of robotics jobs
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#556Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These cars are literally unsupervised. Unsupervised in what sense? There's internal cameras that are periodically checked. Weight and seatbelt sensors that give alerts if a passenger is or puts objects in the drivers seat, or if too many individuals get in the car. I'd be shocked if a similar or greater level of observability doesn't also exist outside the car.
If the cameras are not AI monitored now, they will be next month.
By mechanical Turks for a few years.
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#557I can't imagine this turning out well if there is any social media movement around these cars. It's reminding me of that one robot travelling across the country which ended up getting destroyed by some people.
i've always felt that a purpose built robotaxi should be a completely round blob without any exterior protrusions, to maximally avoid coning and subway-surfing-style incidents (waymosurfing?)
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#558Earlier quoted context omitted.
Waymos ads are obnoxious and it keeps selling my travel data to everyone, I'll better get a car
Source?
Windows 11, Google, et al.
For more see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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#559I highly recommend everyone try it out if you're in SF. It's an incredibly smooth and sure ride. The cars are really nice too (Jaguar I-Pace electric cars), clean and spacious. The first time you ride in one, it feels truly sci-fi. But within 5 minutes, you're almost bored of it - that's how good it is. If I had to choose between an Uber of questionable cleanliness and driver temperament and a Waymo with a slightly l…
Personally I dont understand why they went with Jaguars. I wish they had gone with Hondas and struck a deal with them to integrate their level 3 Autonomous tech as it is the most advanced in the industry.
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have computers that can drive a car in city traffic and you're worried that we can't have a computer look at the inside of a car and tell me if someone's left a mess? A non-ML model background subtraction algorithm from the 2000's could tell you that.
computers can't smell
VOC sensors are pretty good