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Waymo's initial commercial deployment is imminent but is now a good 6 months behind their initial announcement last November. Waymo is still using safety driver
by Fricken 8y ago
Waymo's initial commercial deployment is imminent but is now a good 6 months behind their initial announcement last November. Waymo is still using safety drivers most of the time, and the commercial deployment will likely be confined to members of their EZ rider guinea pigs. It's very exciting seeing how far they've come, but for every new region they hope to roll out in there's going to be a ton of work. AI can interpolate but it cannot generalize.
We're past peak hype and sliding into the trough of disillusionment.
- tigershark 8y agoWhy is 6 months behind if they said that they will launch a commercial service this year?
- Fricken 8y agoLast November Krafcik said "In a few months". A few months later in March it was changed to "Later this year." Rumours circulated that they had planned for this month, August, which were corroborated by a big Bloomberg puff piece and a ballyhooed partnership announcement with the Valley transit authority, that came out late July, but still no deployment. They're hung up on something.