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Re: Waymo in Dallas

#43

Keeps on being rolled out in red states while being delayed in blue states, quite unfortunate.

Divide this differently:

- states where the major cities commonly have snow for > 3 months

- states where the major cities commonly have snow for Inclement weather is likely the differentiator. Blue state California gets Waymo in its biggest cities, which handily do not get much snow. The other Waymo cities are all below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#44
It does seem necessary to have cameras inside driverless cars but I don't want to if Google is running the show. Your biometrics will probably be stored for "enforcing Google's policies" at a minimum [1].

And then a Waymo dropped teenagers off at the police? I don't care if that was a human, I don't want no snitch car service [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027861

[2] https://www.404media.co/waymo-called-police-on-teens-san-mat...

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One admirable part of Waymo's service area in Dallas is it serves areas previously devalued by racist redlining. This is in contrast to Uber's Avride and Tesla's Robotaxi offerings, which stick only to the richer, whiter areas of Dallas https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/uber-and-avride-launch-rob... https://dallasinnovates.com/tesla-launches-robotaxis-in-dall...

I doubt the geofence exclusion is because of the demographics of those areas and not the demand for autonomous vehicles in those areas, although I don't doubt the latter is a result of the former.

I doubt this is correct. “It’s expensive to be poor” — a lot of people who can’t afford cars (or have bad credit) end up Ubering to/from work every day

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#46

Why are the cars so big? Wouldn't it make sense to have a bunch of much smaller, single person vehicles?

Why would it make more sense? It isn't like a car half the size would cost half as much, but it would severely limit the capacity. Now, you can get a waymo for 1-4 people, but if some (or all) were single occupant, you would be limited.

Being smaller does not help that much much in cost per mile, but has a big cost for functionality.

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#47
post #36

Anyone with a credit card

What reason would someone have not to have a credit or debit card? Credit cards are literally free money, as long as you pay the balance off on time

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#48
post #28

> Dallasites Is that seriously the demonym? Terrible. Try harder, Dallasites.

It sounds too much like "parasite" for me to be comfortable using it. I'm assuming some random person made it up. It's okay to just say "people of/from ", guys.

But then you lose extra important information from words like "masshole."

Re: Waymo in Dallas

#49
post #20

Waymo sells itself People hate human drivers more than they hate the idea of AI drivers https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/business/uber-sexual-assa...

It’s an extremely consistent experience, and you can sit in the front seat (something I like personally). With Uber and taxi services, you never know what kind of driver or ride you’re going to get.

Uber is at least 1000x better than traditionally taxi, without any rating system.
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