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Waymo tested in NYC for years. The state was fairly hostile to the efforts and passed a few laws to restrict competition with the taxis. That's a major reason w
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
Waymo tested in NYC for years. The state was fairly hostile to the efforts and passed a few laws to restrict competition with the taxis. That's a major reason why there isn't much interest in New York state.
There have been various testing and public deployments across the southern half of the US, not only California and the Southwest. Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida all come to mind, plus Pennsylvania due to CMU. The deployments in California and Arizona are the most mature, but they're not the exclusive focus.
I'm not going to get into the bits about silicon valley, because frankly that's not a terribly interesting conversation to have.
- ThunderSizzle 2y agoIt's fascinating that your defense of someone being tired of the CA-centric attitude here is to then turn around and hide behind the NYC-centric attitude. If it's not SF or NYC, it barely matters to most HNers, which is rather annoying to see. It very much obviously causes a heavy bias and arrogance since there's no realy balance to the areas outside those two metros.
- me_me_me 2y agothere is a second side to this medal. Those companies dont give a flying f** about you or your snow. They want to create autonomous taxi for a city and monopolize the public transport. They might be producing PR materials about private self driving cars. But they don't want that, its silly. They want to own all cars and rent them to as many people as possible. To me the whole argument is a pointless.