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> Waymo charges more than Uber to supply constraints To understand this better, is Waymo limited in each location by the number of cars they are allowed to dri
by throwaway2037 2mo ago
> Waymo charges more than Uber to supply constraints
To understand this better, is Waymo limited in each location by the number of cars they are allowed to drive? Or, is Waymo too slow to expand the number of cars on their side? As an outsider, if you have very good demand for your product, why not expand? I must be missing something obvious. (Again, I don't write this to doubt your explanation.)
- alooPotato 2mo agoThere is a limit on how many they are allowed to operate.
- throwaway2037 2mo agoI tried to research this limit. Here is what I found about San Francisco: > Waymo is not subject to a regulatory cap or hard limit on the number of cars it can operate in San Francisco. To be clear, the regulator in question here is California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is a state-level regulator. Apparently, SF local officials would like to limit the number of vehicles but it not allowed by division of powers.
- jdm2212 2mo agoAIUI the issue is just scaling pain. No one has ever run a global network of first-party-owned taxis before, and they're learning by doing, at the same time as they're also solving problems in ML/robotics to make the robotaxis work more reliably in more contexts, and also figuring out how to manufacture reliable robotaxis at scale.