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1. Cruise only operates between 10 PM and 6 AM and under 30 mph. Waymo operates all day without an artificial speed restriction. 2. Waymo's service area in SF
by ra7 5y ago
1. Cruise only operates between 10 PM and 6 AM and under 30 mph. Waymo operates all day without an artificial speed restriction.
2. Waymo's service area in SF is more than twice that of Cruise's. Unsurprisingly, both of them avoid downtown areas.
3. Waymo has hundreds of vehicles in San Francisco. Cruise only has a fraction of that — last I heard, only <10 of them were providing driverless rides.
4. According to CA DMV 2021 disengagement data, Waymo is driving almost 3x more miles than Cruise.
Waymo seems to love a slow and steady approach, but when they announce a service it's fully featured as we've seen in Chandler, AZ.
- jeffbee 5y agoI don't think it's fair to say that either Cruise or Waymo avoid downtown areas. Cruise cars come pouring out of their depot at Van Ness and California nightly at 10pm, like bats or something. That's not downtown but it's in a very dense, very busy area. Cruise's offices are in SoMa where Dropbox used to be, and I see tons of Cruise cars in the vicinity of Folsom/Embarcadero. I also see Waymo working Embarcadero on both sides of Market, which is downtown.
- ra7 5y agoOh yes, they test in downtown areas. I meant they avoid them for their public beta program rides.
- silentsea90 5y agoSounds like Google. Slow, steady and more reliable.
- dymk 5y agoReliable? https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ It sounds like Waymo, sure, but not like Google. There's a reason they're separate companies.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 5y agoGoogle tends to explicitly kill projects they don’t want to maintain instead of letting them languish. This strategy has obvious disadvantages, but it does mean that their products are usually reliable (until they get killed).
- dymk 5y agoOkay, in that case we're talking about the reliability (in the sense of uptime/bugs) versus reliability (in terms of Steve? Oh yeah, he's reliable!).
- fshbbdssbbgdd 5y agoIf Steve warns you 2 years in advance that he’s doing to stop working for you, with a gradual ramp down in service and comprehensive transition plan, would you really say he’s unreliable?
- dymk 5y agoIf he kept doing it, yea, I wouldn’t trust to invest my effort into his services.
- silentsea90 5y agoReliable from a engineering/technical PoV