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> They have several phases before they open fully: safety driver no passenger testing, safety drivers with employee passengers, driverless with employee passeng
by jessriedel 2y ago
> They have several phases before they open fully: safety driver no passenger testing, safety drivers with employee passengers, driverless with employee passengers, limited rollout to paid passengers under NDA, wider rollout but with waitlist, and finally getting rid of the waitlist.
It's certainly true that they need to do a bunch of extensive mapping for each city, but I don't think we should expect their roll-out speed in later cities to be as slow as the first couple of cities. Most of the stuff they are learning in the initial roll-out will generalize to other location; it's not all city-specific learning.
- TulliusCicero 2y agoIt will get faster definitely, but how much faster is the question. We've only seen full rollout to two cities so far, so hard to extrapolate.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWell you can definitely bet it will be faster not slower than the first two, especially given the basic (i.e. shared/city-agnostic) engineering required and the policy component, which will get easier and easier with each city as risk aversion turns to FOMO.
- jessriedel 2y agoMy argument is based on theory. We know that a lot of the learning is facing unusual situations (trucks delivering traffic lights, etc) that can happen in many places. And we have some idea of how long the mapping takes.
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