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Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by schmidtleonard »

_fat_santa wrote: post #60

I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around. They seem to have a mix of robotaxis (like the ones pictured) and decked out Toyota Highlanders that look like Waymos but not as well "packaged", though in my personal experience I saw far more of the Highlanders than the custom robotaxis and all of them seemed to have a driver behind the wheel. Vegas is an interesting place to launch IMO (and I believe they only oper…

AWS Re:Invent is in December, so it's also a good time to show it off to potential evangelists (they've been teasing it for years).

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by isatty »

bluGill wrote: post #79
_fat_santa wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around, we actually got stuck behind one trying to make a right turn onto LV Boulevard (the strip) and seemed to be far to cautious.

Were they to cautious or is the typical driver far too aggressive?

Why not both?

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by paulnpace »

octernion wrote: post #108
paulnpace wrote: post #91

I now see their development vehicles all over the valley, whereas previously if I was near the Strip that's the only region I would see them in. This valley has congestion issues pretty much all day everywhere, plus a traffic light management protocol that results in very long light cycles. Many of us when coming to a red light where there are multiple lanes and traffic is light, will make a point to not stop in the…

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> you sound pretty entitled and have a set of "rules" that aren't traffic rules.

> i'm glad we will have robot cars to keep folks like you in your place. you aren't entitled to make the rules of the road.

Nobody is required to be polite and considerate while using a shared resource, and if your opinion prevails, we will, indeed, have a cold, heartless society.

It is mildly interesting to me that you interpret being polite and considerate as "rules". I made no such claim.

I do find it rather belittling to claim I feel "entitled" - perhaps you could refrain from this level of discourse or go to one of the places more appreciative of adolescent behavior.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by standardUser »

paulnpace wrote: post #91

I now see their development vehicles all over the valley, whereas previously if I was near the Strip that's the only region I would see them in. This valley has congestion issues pretty much all day everywhere, plus a traffic light management protocol that results in very long light cycles. Many of us when coming to a red light where there are multiple lanes and traffic is light, will make a point to not stop in the…

Waymo has been a good actor in every way I can think of so far. They're transparent, their expansion is cautiously paced, and their safety record exceeds that of human drivers. I'm not sure what more we could ask for. Tesla on the other hand seems determined to put cars on the road ASAP and just hope for the best, but local regulatory hurdles seem to have stopped them for the most part. Zoox, from what I can tell, is taking the Waymo approach.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by wmf »

jewel wrote: post #52

The front-to-back symmetry is interesting. It may cause some confusion for other drivers, in some limited circumstances, when they can't tell which way the vehicle is facing. It appears, based on my study of the footage on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRW8bfy4kE , that it could possibly switch which side is the front and the back by just changing the color of the lights. With RGB LEDs that would be pretty easy to…

They can switch sides. They showed a demo of pulling into a parking space then driving straight out.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by badc0ffee »

monero-xmr wrote: post #68
amenghra wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vegas is also good for many other reasons: year round good weather, lots of tourists in need of taxi services, too hot to walk, too drunk to drive, etc…

#1 place cabbies have tried to scam me. #2 being Boston. Uber is such a blessing

San Francisco, too. I'm so glad for Uber.

One downside to Uber in Vegas is that airport pickups happen in some hot parking garage far from the terminals.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by octernion »

paulnpace wrote: post #113
octernion wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> you sound pretty entitled and have a set of "rules" that aren't traffic rules. > i'm glad we will have robot cars to keep folks like you in your place. you aren't entitled to make the rules of the road. Nobody is required to be polite and considerate while using a shared resource, and if your opinion prevails, we will, indeed, have a cold, heartless society. It is mildly interesting to me that you interpret being p…

heartless society is when someone has to wait at a red light for a few more seconds. and yes, enumerating a set of silly non-law "rules" you expect drivers on the road to follow is the definition of entitlement.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

_fat_santa wrote: post #60

I was just in Vegas and saw these rolling around. They seem to have a mix of robotaxis (like the ones pictured) and decked out Toyota Highlanders that look like Waymos but not as well "packaged", though in my personal experience I saw far more of the Highlanders than the custom robotaxis and all of them seemed to have a driver behind the wheel. Vegas is an interesting place to launch IMO (and I believe they only oper…

It may be a maze of roads to the backs of casinos, but it's still a small maze of roads. I would expect the mapping of it to be very precise by now.

Re: Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

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Post by dingnuts »

ricree wrote: post #56

Just about a year and a half too late for https://longbets.org/712/ Although from the article, it sounds like this might not be servicing a wide enough area to win the bet even if the time was extended a couple years.

no the bet is lost on every count

1 it's not fully autonomous, there's a remote operator

2 not a wide enough service area as defined in the bet

3 it's a pilot program, also excluded in the bet

4 it's also a year late and the bet is very much still lost

lol but we're going to have self driving cars by 2015 guys!

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