California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

Post by xp84 » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

wilg wrote: post #118

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #52

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BTW, this is the way: Assuming nothing exceptional, with the every-half-hour or better frequency, I use Waymo to get to a Caltrain station, take Caltrain to a nearby stop, and then Waymo from there to destination.

It would be dope if the Waymo app, given that it knows the travel times via Google maps transit and your location, could arrange this for you so you walk right into a waiting Waymo the moment your train arrives, and the whole thing could be routed as one trip in the app.

Post by cyberrock » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 7:45 AM UTC

arjie wrote: post #20

The effectiveness with which AVs have been able to test and spread despite local municipalities being fairly luddite about them does provide positive evidence for the idea that states are the right level of government for many of these decisions. If this had been entirely up to Bay Area municipalities it would have been infeasible, and this outcome and the lives consequently saved will be due to state-level decision-…

Post by HackerBarrel » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 8:53 AM UTC

wilg wrote: post #117

JuniperMesos wrote: post #115

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If you're playing it via Spotify, it's not your music, it's Spotify's. Waymo is cool technology but I am disappointed at how the app requires a Google account plus access to google play services on an Android phone, and how the streaming music feature requires some kind of protocol that only Spotify and some proprietary Google music app support. All of my music is stored on a personal server that I stream to my phone…

It's not your music unless you own the copyright, even if its on a disc or drive.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 9:22 AM UTC

tricolon wrote: post #76

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It appears not to be. Here are the ones in Santa Clara County: - Milpitas - Mountain View - Palo Alto Santa - San Jose - Sunnyvale - Unincorporated Area (Lexington Hills area, overlapping Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties) I don't know why it says "Palo Alto Santa" Edit: I guess it's "Palo Alto Santa" to disambiguate between Palo Alto, which is in Santa Clara County, and East Palo Alto, which is in San Mateo County…

Looking at the city limits, I don't understand why East Palo Alto isn't called North Palo Alto instead.

Post by drob518 » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 10:13 AM UTC

mh- wrote: post #137

squeaky-clean wrote: post #129

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I frequently have to wait 20-30 minutes for an Uber or Lyft pickup at my apartment in south Brooklyn. I'm sure it doesn't help that I'm usually going somewhere like Bay Ridge if I'm ordering an Uber and not somewhere popular. If it's after 1am I just open both Lyft and Uber and book both because at least one of them will just park the car and not come and wait out the timer before it assigns a new driver. I wish the…

Book Uber Black and 99% of those issues go away. Have taken more Ubers than I'd like to admit, so I'm comfortable calling this a large enough sample size to qualify as anecdata.