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They state the date pretty clearly in the article. >Beginning today, October 8, we’re excited to open up our fully driverless offering to Waymo One riders. Mem

by jowday 6y ago

They state the date pretty clearly in the article. >Beginning today, October 8, we’re excited to open up our fully driverless offering to Waymo One riders. Members of the public service can now take friends and family along on their rides and share their experience with the world.

sandworm101 6y ago
"Members of the public service" is different than "members of the public". This is still a closed beta. But now it seems you are allowed to have your friends along for the ride. I wonder if these friends and family persons are subject to any NDA.
- jowday 6y ago
  Sure, I was addressing the date specifically.
- neil_s 6y ago
  > "I wonder if these friends and family persons are subject to any NDA" According to the article: "take friends and family along on their rides and share their experience with the world"
- polishTar 6y ago
  Waymo One doesn't use NDAs and users are allowed to bring friends with them, but Waymo also has an "early rider" program that's more restrictive and does use NDAs.
  - Ajedi32 6y ago
    Correct. This article is about "fully driverless" rides (rides with no safety driver present) graduating from their experimental "Early Rider Program" (which includes a small group of people under NDAs) to their public "Waymo One" service (which is a commercial service which requires no NDAs, but still has rather limited availability for now). Waymo One has been shut down for a while now due to COVID, but now that driverless rides are an option they're re-opening the service with 100% fully driverless rides. Once they get around to installing barriers between the driver and passenger seats they plan to go back to most rides having a safety driver, but with some smaller percentage of Waymo One rides continuing to be fully driverless.
fullshark 6y ago
So Waymo One riders can now get a ride without a safety driver if they want to? Sounds like the OP has a point.

by jowday 6y ago

sandworm101 6y ago

"Members of the public service" is different than "members of the public". This is still a closed beta. But now it seems you are allowed to have your friends along for the ride. I wonder if these friends and family persons are subject to any NDA.

jowday 6y ago
Sure, I was addressing the date specifically.
neil_s 6y ago
> "I wonder if these friends and family persons are subject to any NDA" According to the article: "take friends and family along on their rides and share their experience with the world"
polishTar 6y ago
Waymo One doesn't use NDAs and users are allowed to bring friends with them, but Waymo also has an "early rider" program that's more restrictive and does use NDAs.
- Ajedi32 6y ago
  Correct. This article is about "fully driverless" rides (rides with no safety driver present) graduating from their experimental "Early Rider Program" (which includes a small group of people under NDAs) to their public "Waymo One" service (which is a commercial service which requires no NDAs, but still has rather limited availability for now). Waymo One has been shut down for a while now due to COVID, but now that driverless rides are an option they're re-opening the service with 100% fully driverless rides. Once they get around to installing barriers between the driver and passenger seats they plan to go back to most rides having a safety driver, but with some smaller percentage of Waymo One rides continuing to be fully driverless.

fullshark 6y ago

So Waymo One riders can now get a ride without a safety driver if they want to? Sounds like the OP has a point.