Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver

Post by Rudybega » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC

badgersnake wrote: post #300

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There aren't remote "drivers" in the Philippines, that's not how Fleet Response works. You can see how it works here if you're curious: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response but the TLDR is that they give the Waymo driver options in confusing situations (things like, you can go use this driveway on the side to pass this blocked traffic).

Directing the movements of a car is now “fleet response”, not “driving”. Give them a fucking innovation award or something.

Post by ziml77 » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

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From an execution standpoint you can't work on experimental mobility due to path dependence. How are they going to convince municipal governments to open golf cart lanes? That would require solving two problems (autonomy and overcoming path dependence), and solving just one is hard enough. Once they saturate the market as it is with autonomous driving, then everything will change and opportunities to experiment will…

In the Midwest, golf carts are exactly what people use to get around in small towns. It's not unreasonable that neighborhoods might be closed to large vehicles and use other forms of transit within their boundaries.

Post by UltraSane » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

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Not for a very long time. Just think about how big of an advantage lidar and radar are at night or radar is in snow and rain? If Tesla had been smart they would have used regular cameras and event based cameras where the pixels send a signal whenever their brightness changes enough. These can have microsecond latency. And multi spectral cameras. Combined this data would provide very rich data for neural networks.

Sounds like you’re an expert. Do you work in the autonomous vehicle space? In what capacity?

Post by mlsu » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC

rbbydotdev wrote: post #230

mlsu wrote: post #71

Obviously there is a huge amount of money and effort being spent on automated driving. But I cannot help thinking that this perception technology will prove very useful for robotics in general, factory, home, in space, etc. Car dynamics are fast enough to be useful across a huge number of domains. In some sense, the visionaries in this space are not thinking big enough. I want visions of mobility with a totally diffe…

I’m imagining these vehicles on a sort of track, this way if the automation fails, it can still be guided. Also, the track could even potentially deliver power. The vehicle can be any number of connected pods.

Post by UltraSane » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

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Any evidence for this claim?

I don’t think you need evidence to understand it. I’d recommend listening to Andrej Karpathy talk about it. But I note that human drivers do not rely on LIDAR or radar or a high res map of the road.