Ride into the Future with Waymo on Uber in Austin
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#2I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
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#3I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
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In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emergency vehicles). Both companies got lumped in together, but this seemed to stop as soon as Cruise paused operations.
It's nice that Austin will get a chance to see Waymo first, and have the ability to differentiate between the performance whenever Tesla launches. It'd be great if both performed flawlessly, but I have my doubts about one of these companies ability to act responsibly...
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#4I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
+1 In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emergency vehicles). Both companies got lumped in together, but this seemed to stop as soon as Cruise paused operations. It's nice that Austin will get a chance to see Waymo first, and have the ability to differentiate between the performance whenever Tesla launches.…
Austin already had Cruise until Cruise operations shut down in late 2023.
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#5The only bummer here is that there's no guarantee of matching with a Waymo. You can set your ride preference to "increases chances" of getting a Waymo, but I wish there was an option to always get it if your ride starts and ends in their service area. It's a strange decision from Waymo to agree to this.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emergency vehicles). Both companies got lumped in together, but this seemed to stop as soon as Cruise paused operations. It's nice that Austin will get a chance to see Waymo first, and have the ability to differentiate between the performance whenever Tesla launches.…
Austin already had Cruise until Cruise operations shut down in late 2023.
Not in any meaningful way though. It was limited to only night time and select riders for most people to even notice.
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#7What a lame future.
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#8I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
+1 In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emergency vehicles). Both companies got lumped in together, but this seemed to stop as soon as Cruise paused operations. It's nice that Austin will get a chance to see Waymo first, and have the ability to differentiate between the performance whenever Tesla launches.…
Both companies got lumped together, but Waymo had and continued to have issues after Cruise stopped operations. Some of those continued making headlines, like the 3am honking.
During the time they were both operating public service in SF, Waymo had slightly fewer incidents proportional to their fleet size, but almost all of them were extremely minor. Cruise had mostly minor incidents with a few catastrophic failures.
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#9Wow, I wonder if they'll make it up north any time soon!
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#10I love that this is landing in Austin before the cybercab. I think it will really drive the competition for Tesla to put out an (actual) self driving car. Or maybe they pivot to the next hype train.
Well at the very least it will be interesting to see the fallout when the lidar-less Tesla robotaxi flattens its first pedestrian.