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Re: Next stop: Miami

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I wonder when they will be able to provide service in northern cities (that get snow).

Once they can do that -- and (I guess) can prove profitable -- they could expand non-stop across the country.

Re: Next stop: Miami

#4
I think the most interesting part is that the article says that Waymo's handing its operations to Moove. It seems like Waymo's trying to become a software provider while having other companies handle the capital-intensive parts.

Re: Next stop: Miami

#5
Miami probably has some of the worst, most lawless drivers in the country — it's like a free-for-all out there. Makes me wonder if Waymo picked Miami as a kind of stress test for their self-driving tech. If they can handle the chaos there, they can probably handle just about anything.

Re: Next stop: Miami

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Miami probably has some of the worst, most lawless drivers in the country — it's like a free-for-all out there. Makes me wonder if Waymo picked Miami as a kind of stress test for their self-driving tech. If they can handle the chaos there, they can probably handle just about anything.

Miami car insurance fraud rings are going to have a fun trying to trick Waymo into rear-ending them. Wonder if it will work.

Re: Next stop: Miami

#8

Not from Miami, so I wonder (based on news etc.) if flooding is ever an issue for traffic in and around the city?

It is during and after a hurricane. I wouldn’t recommend taking a robotaxi during a storm though.

Re: Next stop: Miami

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Miami probably has some of the worst, most lawless drivers in the country — it's like a free-for-all out there. Makes me wonder if Waymo picked Miami as a kind of stress test for their self-driving tech. If they can handle the chaos there, they can probably handle just about anything.

I'd imagine NYC to be worse than Miami.

Miami seems to share enough similarity in warm weather to SF to be a similar enough use case to expand while providing slightly different driving conditions to be able to dip ones toes in to the driving habits of a different city.

Re: Next stop: Miami

#10
Jaguar discontinued the I-PACE and presumably does not manufacture them anymore. It must be the case that Waymo is cannibalizing their fleet capacity from other markets for every new city launch.
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