7 ms·
Yes Waymo is still active. I live in the testing zone and see an enormous amount of their vans. About 1 for every 5 minutes of driving.
by cbron 9y ago
Yes Waymo is still active. I live in the testing zone and see an enormous amount of their vans. About 1 for every 5 minutes of driving.
- Cheyana 9y agoI drove down a main road here in Chandler, Arizona yesterday and saw three in five minutes. Based on all my experiences on the road with them in the last few months I’d say the chances of them having an incident similar to Uber are much less.
- komali2 9y agoI actually trust the waymo cars more than regular ones now when I'm on my bicycle or motorcycle. Granted they are absurdly "cautious drivers" and can be mildly annoying to be stuck behind in a car.
- konschubert 9y agoThis is the thing that makes me most excited about autonomous vehicles.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoAmen. One day they they'll write "Strangely, they killed <this many> per year with cars and did not even bat an eye."
- Zanni 9y agoThis strikes me as a risk factor that no one is really discussing. We talk about the dangers of Level 3/4 autonomy, where the driver is still responsible for the car, but autopilot is doing most of the work, leading to a bored/disengaged driver who's not ready to react when it's actually necessary. We don't hear as much pedestrians taking it for granted that a car will stop for them, right of way or no, because of their experience with self-driving cars. Leading to the inevitable accident when they step in front of a human-piloted car who isn't paying attention / can't see them.
- Tepix 9y agoWhat's your suggestion then? Making the front window reflective so pedestrians have no way of knowing whether or not there is a driver?
- Zanni 9y agoMy suggestion for pedestrians is to treat cars like guns. Just as you assume a gun is loaded, you should assume a car does not see you. I see people stepping into crosswalks staring at their phones after barely glancing up to see the light has changed. They have no idea if the oncoming traffic is slowing/stopping for them. It's a problem now, and I think self-driving cars have the potential to make it worse (as, at the same time, they are making it better in other ways).
- jcims 9y agoMaybe that's what happened here. The LIDAR would be visible from afar and that lady just watched the car run into her without flinching. In all seriousness, what you're describing happens on college campuses across the country today, where students are conditioned to drivers yielding right of way.
- InitialLastName 9y agoPart of that conditioning is that in many of those places, drivers are legally required to yield the right of way.
- komali2 9y agoSomething I learned in motorcycle class, very applicable here: Laws are for the living, or, yea you had right of way but you're still dead.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- 9y ago
- walrus01 9y agoI wonder if this is because waymo has shown more details of how their lidar operates (and how it would have detected the pedestrian who was hit by the Uber car), but Uber is refusing to show the inner workings of their lidar's abilities to the regulators. The manufacturer of uber's lidar system recently came out and said that they do not believe it failed, but that the input from it failed somewhere inside Uber's software.