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It's certainly smart to start this as a ride-sharing service rather than DTC ownership model. By being able to choose which trips it is confident in taking, it
by pgodzin 9y ago
It's certainly smart to start this as a ride-sharing service rather than DTC ownership model. By being able to choose which trips it is confident in taking, it removes a lot of the remaining question marks that would come up by a car owner trying to take it anywhere.
- skywhopper 9y agoThe question is: can this be a viable commercial product if it doesn’t actually do what people expect from a taxi service? And how extensive is the deployment going to be that people will choose to use Waymo over just driving? If I have to plan ahead or wait 15 minutes for a car to arrive, I’m a lot less likely to even try the service.
- golfer 9y agoThey have to start somewhere. It sounds like this will be an initial rollout. Obviously they won't be limited to Chandler Arizona forever.
- icebraining 9y agoIf they do it right, the user doesn't have to care. You call a car, and either a self-driving or a non-self-driving one will show up, depending on the trip you selected. But that's for the future; for now I'm pretty sure every car will have a driver, even if just as a backup/supervisor.