Sense, Solve, and Go: The Magic of the Waymo Driver 

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Hope you get to use services like this everywhere soon. Sorry to hear you can’t drive. Must make things challenging. Hope you doing well.

@@Findthatyeti Thanks that's really nice of you to say. I do alright though. It's just exciting to think of having my own car one day. I live in Canada so it might be a while. I'm sure there is going to have to be a lot of testing for icy and snowy roads.

@@Kai_RC oh dang. That’s true. I forgot about the weather conditions.

I've had nightmares of that when I was a kid

Hello. Excuse me, what's your career?

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I tried the Waymo vehicle a few weeks ago in San Francisco.

​@@Franco1949That's nice

It was not impressed :) i not like When my Life is controlled. Especially People Will not have Discussion with taxi Drivers. What's new on streets etc. :) That sounds like people will go in isolation Without others if will use all the time This type of auto. Taxi Drivers People delivering to party, especially They are know where is fresh Party etc. What Your type of taxi can give? Party! No. Ahh and from party, when people was drunk, ho will take care of them Car Engine Or Tires? :D This sounds like company wasted money. watch the movie "Demolition Man" :) I know it will be Maby for someone to hard understand. Cool movie :)

@@viktorsjefimovs6480 your rambling is TMTR

Human error is fixable robots aren’t they make more errors

nah. you would share it with other people like a taxi.

Yeah, totally get it. I know a couple of people with epilepsy and they would find that sense of "freedom" that they have lost.

Yeah I hope so too!! It would mean the world to me if I could own self driving car like this instead of just using it for taxis!

Because there are many many more Tesla vehicles than Waymo vehicles. And because Tesla's CEO is a famous person.

I think people think it’s fake!

Really helps to have a professional conman as your CEO

@@_____case Tesla cars are NOT autonomous. Having a CEO who tends to exaggerate and do marketting using bullshit stories goes a long way given the gullible population.

@@est9949it is now. New update is insane

they have it in LA now you just need to join the waitlist, I went on it several times already

@@yisroelbinstok1122 I meant I don’t know why but 2 out of 2 Ubers (or 100%) in SF r smelly in LA so u kind of have no choice 😅 but good to know it’s also in LA now!

​@@annxiao7721Indian food

If only they had some type of service that could deliver food to people.

Why would you cut in front of a Waymo anyway?

That’s because technology is much more smarter than idiot people.

​@@DreamFlightProtechnology lacks ego

It was not impressed :) i not like When my Life is controlled. Especially People Will not have Discussion with taxi Drivers. What's new on streets etc. :) That sounds like people will go in isolation Without others if will use all the time This type of auto. Taxi Drivers People delivering to party, especially They are know where is fresh Party etc. What Your type of taxi can give? Party! No. Ahh and from party, when people was drunk, ho will take care of them Car Engine Or Tires? :D This sounds like company wasted money. watch the movie "Demolition Man" :) I know it will be Maby for someone to hard understand. Cool movie :)

It was a great video. Yes, let’s try navigating the urban landscapes of the United States in a golf cart that has a top speed of 24mph. As for your Red ignorance, let’s stick with that thought but knock it down to about 21mph. You plan to have people patiently wait their turn to reach a destination too I take it? Or are you just asking for fixed routes that remain extremely distant from where people actually work and live? You can shove your micro-village pipe dream as people are delivered to their car. You are aware the city depicted is San Francisco correct? Are you familiar with the other market Waymo is operating in? Chandler, Mesa, Tempe and Gilbert, Arizona at 21-24mph would result in death. If you are not lucky enough to be plowed into during your first 17 miles; suicidal ideations seem likely. There will be no way to reach the suburbs or city efficiently, safely or profitably (zero demand). Micromobility! Meeting daily NEEDS is all? Aren’t you just a gem?! You believe Americans motivation for transportation is ‘driven’ by NEEDS. Above average composition there sir….completely asinine reasoning. AVs will lower congestion significantly due to drivers with similar reasoning being removed. I thoroughly enjoyed my year abroad in Copenhagen, but there is absolutely nothing micro about the United States. (Also it only takes one glance at a headshot to quickly denounce the likelihood of you ever riding a bike….anywhere)

This is actually a pretty good question.

Uber and Lyft aren't soulless entities. That's real people you are talking about! Who drive those cars and for the most of us are here to be nice and still get paid, driving their own cars, paying taxes just like you and playing their part in fueling society. Who have families just like you and providing a service just like yourself. Imagine the lovely career you have now and suddenly someone invents an android to replace you! I bet you wouldn't feel so good then about your crass comments.

if it's a proper blizzard the recommendation is not to go out and taxi services r reduced .....that said if there is visibility for the cameras and radar and lidar there is no reason they couldn't make it work .....but they want to be extra safe while developing it since there is no one behind the wheel .....the important part is cars without drivers already exist and work today ....it's not something in the future anymore

I'm not sure there's any reason the service would have to go offline just because the car isn't driving itself. Human drivers can still be made available to drive on days where conditions like this are expected. Today we already see that Waymo employs human drivers for test driving and even to be in the vehicles when weather conditions make things more uncertain. This is one of the reasons self-driving cars work better as a service right now than they do for private ownership. Services can be flexible.

Why are you going out in a blizzard?

@@heatguyjr , it could be a doctor, commuting to her workplace, to a 20+ hour shift. The opportunity to catch a few extra minutes of sleep during a taxi commute could be a great help. Doctors don't stop working in blizzards.

It doesn't have a singl sensor, ther are multiple anti fails. Also it will just stop if something is close

I am sure in time AV's will be able to handel any weather

I think the combination of cameras, radar (which can see through fog) and lidar make this system more resilient against adverse weather compared to systems that only use cameras for navigation

I live in Tempe Arizona where the weather is lovely all year round. I see these vehicles quite often and had no idea what they were. Recently I overheard some co workers talking about these vehicles and I just became more confused. These co workers are not the smartest but they truly believed that these cars purpose was to spy in the areas of cities where there is known criminal activity.. Of course this crazy sounding but watching this video made me even more confused. First of all they look completely automated and I am sure they are but 100% of the times I saw them there was someone (driver?) sitting in the front seat. Even more strange I have never seen anyone sitting in the back seat. Never have I seen one driving alone. Always always always they drive around with one passenger only and that passenger I'd always in the driver seat.

I just got back from Tempe and they definitely are real lol. At first I was so creeped out but then I was intrigued to try if. I used them to get around to restaurants and my hotel. It was SOOOO COOL! And it was incredible how safe it was. I was impressed beyond belief!

And they do drive alone! I think there are some that have a driver to assist maybe for different routes? But they were driving by themselves!!

You can see these cars driving around with no one at all in them here in Phoenix. I guess they're going to pick up the next rider. It looks strange seeing a car driving all by itself but it also looks great.

@@joesitter20101that would trip me out the first time I think lol

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Which airport?

You can cast music from your phone to the Waymo stereo.

We love that you're eager to experience the Waymo Driver! We're currently focused on perfecting our ride-hailing services in Phoenix, LA, Austin, and San Francisco. Stay tuned to our feed for future updates on our progress.

Yes in those very specific scenarios a self driving car would probably do worse than your average driver. However how often do these types of situations happen? In my opinion almost never. I personally have never had this type of situation happen to me in my limited 4 years of driving experience. Now how many times do car accidents happen because of really stupid human error such as wrong way driving, texting while driving, drunk driving, people not using their blinker, people not checking their blind spots, road rage, etc. I think the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. If the point you’re making is I wouldn’t trust a computer to be my driver when i could drive safer myself than that’s valid.

A robot should know that paper sheets are not a threat it should apply hard braking for. After all, there is also tree leaf that can fly around and the car must understand that leaf is not a threat. So, in theory you can train it to identify patterns of flying objects. If an object falls straight down then most likely it can hurt the car and it must stop, but if an object flies around like a leaf then the car shouldn't be worried about it, unless it doesn't stick to one of its cameras or sensors.

Stopping when you don't necessarily need to is fine, though, isn't it? It's harder to swallow when it's technology, but self driving was already much safer than humans statistically even in it's infant stages.

I wish now I fucking hate driving

Crying because Waymo doesnt exclusively use cameras for it's data input, but instead relys on more sensors and more information.

Because Teslas aren't autonomous

Tesla has haters

Tesla is not fully autonomous

Exactly. I'm an Uber driver for 10 years now. This gig economy has provided for my family consistently where a job would always leave me short from paycheck to paycheck. If this came to my city, over several hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers would increasingly be out of work. This company is only insensitively trying to replace hard workers who in intense traffic and bad weather, can out maneuver and flow through traffic. We are real and full control of the vehicle. If this vehicle malfunctions or misjudged for even a second, the passenger is totally vulnerable. Road blocks change and open and close, driving patterns for a few hundred cars on the highway changes from hour to hour. And yes, I am Uber black, a 4wd vehicle that I will use to help passengers in all types of severe weather, when even a taxi wouldn't. My city is a tourist city, people want to interact and find out suggestions for how to move around town, this car gives none of this. We keep talking about providing more jobs, but really rich people don't want to see poor people in their presence. Let us poor people just drown in debt. Make machines service only those who can afford it and allow the rest of us to drown instead of allowing us to earn our way. Sickening. Welcome to America.

What did the millions of taxi drivers do when Uber and Lyft took over?

@@tinabelt5977 Are you serious? Comparing a whole Autonomous vehicle with an app on your phone??

What happened to all the horse stables and all the cart mechanic? They got a new job. So get a new job, world will not stop for you.

Cannot imagine it would be done remotely. Too much latency and too many reliability issues. It uses 5G no doubt to download extra mapping data. But as Waymo presentation outlines, high-res mapping data is used only as a historical reference, not as absolute truth - better to have some expectation of what is beyond the horizon than no expectation at all. But live data from sensors is always the more important source of truth.

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