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WARNING: never try to take Waymo to the Hollywood Bowl. Their app lets you book a ride to the entrance... then stops and makes you exiut, in front of a motel,
by aaroninsf 2y ago
WARNING: never try to take Waymo to the Hollywood Bowl.
Their app lets you book a ride to the entrance... then stops and makes you exiut, in front of a motel, blocking its driveway, a mile from the venue.
There is an invisible "exclusion zone" there that is not marked on maps, and not communicated to you in any way. You just get dumped somewhere other than the displayed destination and there is no ability to "add a stop" or otherwise modify the ride.
Ask me how I know when trying to make a show... or ask the people in the other Waymos we watched pull up as were frantically trying to get a Lyft.
- harmmonica 2y agoNot sure how long ago you did this, but just opened the app and tried to book one there and it says I can't because it's outside the service area (it shows Hollywood Bowl but in the greyed out "Results outside of service area." I've taken a Waymo to several large events recently and usually for those it tells you when booking how far from your destination you're actually going to be dropped off or picked up. Maybe a bunch of those folks, including yourself, complained and they fixed this issue for the Bowl.