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Why are the cars so big? Wouldn't it make sense to have a bunch of much smaller, single person vehicles?
I’m thinking that since 2015. Like BMW C1 just with doors on the side and a bit more security. This would approx allow 3-4x as many travellers on a given route compared to traditional cars.
Surprisingly low hype for a company running perhaps the most advanced consumer-interactive robots. I’m quite fond of these machines and will periodically rescue them when someone has misused them (door not closed, most commonly). Hope they do well. Very good road participants.
No freeways. But Waymo now is available to all of Dallas? Does that include the suburbs?
I believe they paused freeways everywhere because they drove through some construction (or didn't handle construction zones well).
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.
> Dallasites Is that seriously the demonym? Terrible. Try harder, Dallasites.
Also, do you have the same issue with the demonyms Manhattanite or Seattleite?
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.
https://www.twu.org/twu-tech-newsletter-waymo-no-mo-in-nyc-f...
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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.
In reality I think you can get better experiences than a taxi with a rideshare service (which they really haven't been for a very long time), but it's very hit or miss.
So less consistently bad as a taxi service... but far from consistently good.