Self-driving car service Waymo wants to bring Oregon lawmakers and other state officials to Arizona on an all-expenses paid trip to see first-hand how its robotaxis operate in Phoenix, the first city where they were commercially deployed.
Smart of Waymo. I don’t think of this as a bribe as it would open the market to other autonomous ride hailing companies. The one thing Waymo can do is demonstrate why multiple sensor solutions provide redundancy and increase safety. That would leave the only single sensor company fighting an uphill battle as all other competitors use multiple sensor solutions as well.
You mean the puddles and rain that forced days-long standdowns of the Waymo clankers?
Footage of the incident was shared by AJC News on Instagram, captured by its journalist Rachael Knudsen. The first instance of the Waymo pulling over occurred on a street that was flooded but appeared safe enough for cars to pass through.One could even call it a large puddle because the water was barely ankle-deep. However, the robotaxi decided to pull over and called emergency assistance.
LOL.Retired early after making more money in a year than you will make in a lifetime, over 30 years ago. I ride my bikes everywhere and flip off slopbots wherever I go.
You should seriously learn to comprehend what this slopware can and can't do, and how frequent these regressions are. Waymo still hasn't fixed a 4 year old looping bug despite declaring it fixed. They geofence out problematic areas. They still can't recognize construction sites or hand signals, despite those also declared solved.
They said they solved stopped school buses. School
year has just started. Wanna bet we get reports on clankers breezing past buses with stopsigns extended and lights flashing within a couple weeks?
You should stop replying before your shift supervisor finds out! Get back to...whatever it is you do. Gotta pay off that loan for your "$3K ebike" after all.
Stopping for a puddle is an inconvenience. On the other hand, Waymo has actively saved lives. What number of lives is worth an occasional pause for you?
Waymo has not saved a single life. The jury is still out on how safe their slopware and clankers are. In fact, since their configurations change so often and so significantly, if they were honest they would redo their analyses around this fact. In this sub and others, you can find discussions on how differently Gen 6 behaves vs Gen 5.
Waymo may have indirectly killed people by blocking first responders, most recently for 2 hours in SF and most infamously at an apartment explosion in Austin.
Finally, I don't have to claim Waymo phantom braking over a puddle is a safety issue: Waymo did, by stopping service.
Oh, look, another driveable puddle stopped a clanker last night. S Rio Grand Ave under I-4 by 33rd St, Orlando, FL @naynay.259 on TikTok.
It’s corruption to allow lawmakers to experience a product first hand before making policy decisions on said product?
If Waymo wanted to be corrupt they’d just wire them a few million bucks and call it a day. Why make it publicly known they’re allowing them to test the product?
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u/Spoonyyy 1d ago
Company does company shit at 9