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Re: Waymo in Dallas

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Post by hadlock »

mathisfun123 wrote: post #320
catchnear4321 wrote: post #317

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No human in the car?

This is only a product for anti-social nerds. Most people will not pay a premium for this (this isn't waymo's product). Edit: lots of people commenting on here how they're normie and they would still prefer waymo. Read what I wrote again - I didn't say normies wouldn't prefer, I said normies wouldn't pay a premium. So unless waymo is planning on being a luxury car service (which it's not) that can't possibly be their…

This comes up in conversation at office events, every woman in our office always agrees they will choose waymo over uber every time, due to the lack of (presumably male) driver.

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Post by schainks »

m_a_g wrote: post #313
eagleinparadise wrote: post #232

As someone who works in commercial real estate, involved in about $300M of housing development, some of it affordable, i will say without any doubt that driverless cars are a very effective affordable housing policy that is not being considered or discussed by anyone. Any public dollar that gets contributed to housing, basically adds a 50% cost factor and assume whatever it is used for will take 2-3x as long to deliv…

God, I love how Americans will do anything but build public transport

THIS.

It's not like there isn't _fabulous_ public transit in every other developed country. All they had to do was make healthcare and education low cost/free.

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Post by zymhan »

inigyou wrote: post #202
echelon wrote: post #174

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> Edgewood Georgia, I love when HN mentions my state or city, but that's the road and neighborhood one block down from me. I feel seen. To add something more substantive to this thread, apparently Google's deal with Uber for distribution has become incredibly adversarial in our state. Uber won't explicitly let you book a Waymo or let you know if you're in the Waymo range.

Thank you so much for revealing your location. This data point has been added to your shadow profile. Kind regards, Palantir.

Buddy, be real.

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Post by pibaker »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #327
m_a_g wrote: post #313

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God, I love how Americans will do anything but build public transport

One thing about private car ownership in the US is that it is a VERY BIG country and sparsely populated so who will pay for the public transport connecting every nook and corner because in the US it's so sparsely populated. Even in India I see metro train being very successful in places which are densely populated but in states like Rajasthan which are very big and sparsely populated there public transport is a failu…

The US is ten times more dense than Australia. And yet Australian cities tend to have comparable if not better transit than similarly sized American cities. The overall population density of a country is largely irrelevant in this discussion because 99% of day to day travels are contained within the same metro areas.

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Post by zymhan »

echelon wrote: post #174
WarmWash wrote: post #118

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>and cause WAY fewer traffic incidents than human drivers. Ironically the best way to verify this is that when they do cause traffic issues, it becomes national news. Imagine breaking down and blocking an intersection in Edgewood Georgia, and then getting a call that night from your Uncle in Oregon saying he saw your breakdown on the news...

> Edgewood Georgia, I love when HN mentions my state or city, but that's the road and neighborhood one block down from me. I feel seen. To add something more substantive to this thread, apparently Google's deal with Uber for distribution has become incredibly adversarial in our state. Uber won't explicitly let you book a Waymo or let you know if you're in the Waymo range.

Definitely never seen it written as "Edgewood Georgia" before but I there really is only one.

Okay two, Avenue and the shopping center.

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Post by annzabelle »

schainks wrote: post #352
m_a_g wrote: post #313

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God, I love how Americans will do anything but build public transport

THIS. It's not like there isn't _fabulous_ public transit in every other developed country. All they had to do was make healthcare and education low cost/free.

In the countries that are closest to America's peers (Canada, Australia, NZ), the public transit is also lacking outside of a few dense cities.

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Post by cyberax »

randomblock1 wrote: post #271
cyberax wrote: post #252

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Self-driving cars will kill off your kind of real estate developers once and for all. Because there is no such thing as "affordable housing". All housing on the market is by definition "affordable". If someone buys it, then somebody can afford it. The proper term is _subsidized_ housing. Anything subsidized is destructive in the long run. Fortunately, self-driving cars and mild carpooling (3-4 people per car) will el…

By your definition a Lamborghini is affordable, because someone can afford it. I don't think that holds up.

Yes, it is. That's why "affordable" is a bad term.

There's also a problem with the way this term is used in practice. It now ended up meaning _subsidized_ housing. An average person would NOT be allowed to buy this housing.

To continue the analogy, real estate developers have to build some Lambos and give them out for free. But only to the right people.

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Post by xnx »

oblio wrote: post #236
eagleinparadise wrote: post #232

As someone who works in commercial real estate, involved in about $300M of housing development, some of it affordable, i will say without any doubt that driverless cars are a very effective affordable housing policy that is not being considered or discussed by anyone. Any public dollar that gets contributed to housing, basically adds a 50% cost factor and assume whatever it is used for will take 2-3x as long to deliv…

America, the place where they will try anything except for building good public transportation, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods.

Self driving cars are public transportation and make areas much more walkable and bikeable.

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Post by xnx »

robomartin wrote: post #309
oblio wrote: post #236

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America, the place where they will try anything except for building good public transportation, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods.

> America, the place where they will try anything except for building good public transportation, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods. This isn't a movie. It's real life. In the movies, sure, you can have a wizard reshape entire cities, power distribution, roads, sewers, potable water production and deliver, move entire neighborhoods kilometers away, move businesses, factories, airports, etc. In the real world, once…

The California highspeed rail project is 33(!) years old.
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