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The marketing video vs. the in-the-field video: https://youtu.be/zdKCQKBvH-A?t=833 https://youtu.be/zdKCQKBvH-A?t=833

• ra7 5y ago
  500k fully driverless miles in Arizona and this is still the only video where it’s actually demonstrated a “failure”. That says something. In fact, the very same channel (JJ Ricks) has a ton of in-the-field Waymo videos where it works exceedingly well.
  • darknavi 5y ago
    > That says something. Perhaps that not everyone records a taxi ride and posts it on YouTube.
    • ra7 5y ago
      That’s fair. But a lot of them also just try out Waymo for the cool factor and capture the ride (like myself).
      • darknavi 5y ago
        Definitely. I still think it is very impressive, I just think they have probably had a few more "bad rides" than this video.
• DominikPeters 5y ago
  This is a very safe way to fail though, with no vulnerable road users nearby.
  • judge2020 5y ago
    But at 16:46 it continues on and moves into traffic before once again failing, this time with people having to go into the oncoming turn lane to go around the Waymo vehicle.
• londons_explore 5y ago
  It's notable that most of the failures in that video are human process and communication failures, not failures of the self driving system itself. It's the kind of thing that could all be fixed in a few days of rehearsals of what to do when cars get into this state. I suspect that the main failure was that rider support had a button to 'pull over', but that the route to pull over was blocked by a cone, so the car failed to pull over, and then rider support seeing the failure probably tried to cancel the pullover (to try again), and it ended up keeping driving. A simple logic change or even just better training/documentation could have fixed this.