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Waymos do stop between fares. They've gotten grief from people who don't like them parked in front of their house.
by minwcnt5 3y ago
Waymos do stop between fares. They've gotten grief from people who don't like them parked in front of their house.
- stouset 3y agoI really hope if anything that seeing so many occupant-less vehicles on the streets makes us collectively realize how inefficiently these vehicles are using a scarce, congestion-prone resource in a way that wasn’t as visible with Uber/Lyft. I’m generally a pretty low-stress person, but seeing traffic issues caused by multiple empty vehicles aimlessly meandering through the city is really starting to get to me.
- londons_explore 3y agoThe city should just start to bill big fleet operators for passenger-less miles. That would be uber and lyft for all miles driven by their operatives without a passenger aboard, and by waymo and cruise for miles driven without a customer. By keeping it to the biggest operators, the administrative burden is small (these companies all GPS track their cars already). The fee could probably be pretty small (say 10 cents a mile) to disuade the practice, while not outlawing it entirely.
- stouset 3y agoNot the worst idea I’ve heard.
- xnx 3y agoI feel this way about free parking.
- londons_explore 3y agoKinda surprised they stop... When you have a self-driving system that costs $200k+, you want to keep it running and collecting data as much as possible - passenger or no passenger. The added tyre wear is going to be tiny compared to the interest payments on all that expensive hardware and engineers salaries.
- notatoad 3y agoprobably more about stretching their battery than anything else. if it roams around between trips it's going to have fewer customers per charge cycle.
- londons_explore 3y agoBut when roaming around at like 10 mph average round the city, it can presumably do a full 18+ hour day on a single charge. Electric cars are super efficient in urban environments.
- throwaway2037 3y agoI never thought about the charging problem. In SF, where do Waymo cars charge themselves?
- londons_explore 3y agoThey have awaymo garage where a human manually plugs them in to charge.
- notatoad 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwUgApj0s8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwUgApj0s8
- xnx 3y agoIt probably make sense to pre-position them to the spot most likely to reduce time to pick up the next predicted passenger.
- rurp 3y agoIt makes sense to me that people wouldn't want a surveillance machine from a hugely powerful adtech company loitering around their property.