Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
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#2I saw one of these on Chambers Street just yesterday afternoon, but it must have been in manual mode, of course.
Re: Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
#3It's fascinating seeing all the comments elsewhere anytime Waymo starts testing in another city along the lines of, "ah, but how will they handle X, Y, and Z here?? Checkmate, robots!" despite having already launched service in several other cities.
Granted, NYC is the biggest city in the US, so maybe that sort of reaction is more reasonable there than when people in Dallas or Boston do it.
Re: Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
#4I saw one of these on Chambers Street just yesterday afternoon, but it must have been in manual mode, of course.
Downtown Manhattan is the hardest-to-navigate area of NYC. I thought they would start somewhere in Midtown, where the grid is regular, streets wide, and demand for taxis still pretty high.
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#5Very cool. I wonder what scale it has to hit for this to become a profitable line item for Google and what their revenue targets are for it.
Re: Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
#6It's fascinating seeing all the comments elsewhere anytime Waymo starts testing in another city along the lines of, "ah, but how will they handle X, Y, and Z here?? Checkmate, robots!" despite having already launched service in several other cities. Granted, NYC is the biggest city in the US, so maybe that sort of reaction is more reasonable there than when people in Dallas or Boston do it.
NYC is also one of the most regularly built out cities, in stark contrast to Boston, for instance. OTOH roads here may be 3 or even 4 levels high at the same point (e.g. where Manhattan bridge meets Brooklyn), and GPS is sometimes way off in canyons between skyscrapers.
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#7Man I love Waymo everytime I'm in SF. Truly feel like I'm living in the future when I sit in one
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#8I saw one of these on Chambers Street just yesterday afternoon, but it must have been in manual mode, of course.
I would expect an "automatic, but human ready to intervene" mode for development and testing.
Re: Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
#9It's fascinating seeing all the comments elsewhere anytime Waymo starts testing in another city along the lines of, "ah, but how will they handle X, Y, and Z here?? Checkmate, robots!" despite having already launched service in several other cities. Granted, NYC is the biggest city in the US, so maybe that sort of reaction is more reasonable there than when people in Dallas or Boston do it.
Yeah I’m skeptical that robots will ever be perfect drivers but the bar isn’t perfect it’s better than human and that’s certainly possible.
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#10I'm cautiously optimistic about this self-driving thing. Waymo at least seems to have figured out a lot of it.
Would it be way better to make walkable neighborhoods, mixed-use developments, and reliable and frequent public transit?
Yes. Yes it would.
But, in lieu of that, self-driving has a lot of advantages in the long run, even if the technology isn't 100% perfect right now.