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+1 In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emerge
by NullHypothesist 2y ago
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In SF, when Cruise & Waymo were both operating at the same time, there was a lot of animosity towards autonomous vehicle driving behavior (especially emergency vehicles). Both companies got lumped in together, but this seemed to stop as soon as Cruise paused operations.
It's nice that Austin will get a chance to see Waymo first, and have the ability to differentiate between the performance whenever Tesla launches. It'd be great if both performed flawlessly, but I have my doubts about one of these companies ability to act responsibly...
- iwanttocomment 2y agoAustin already had Cruise until Cruise operations shut down in late 2023.
- ra7 2y agoNot in any meaningful way though. It was limited to only night time and select riders for most people to even notice.
- dkarl 2y agoI tried Cruise in Austin, and it was nothing more than a curiosity. What should have been a ten minute ride took almost forty minutes because the car took a circuitous route with lots of backtracking, presumably because the cars were programmed to stay away from certain intersections and avoid left turns. It was my first time in a self-driving car, so the cool factor was definitely there, but it was far from being a real product.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoBoth companies got lumped together, but Waymo had and continued to have issues after Cruise stopped operations. Some of those continued making headlines, like the 3am honking. During the time they were both operating public service in SF, Waymo had slightly fewer incidents proportional to their fleet size, but almost all of them were extremely minor. Cruise had mostly minor incidents with a few catastrophic failures.