I was going through the back catalog of videos and adding timestamps to everything, then I found this comment again. Guess I'll be using this in the searchable database on my website :P
6 to 12 months ago I was reading comments on self driving car videos as to how we won't see full self driving for years and years because of this, that and the other. How the companies aren't being honest about the product, it can't be safe, it can't be a real option to allow seniors or blind people to get around this way. Yet here we are in November 2020.......this is wonderful, wonderful stuff and I'm delighted it IS happening.
Me too! :D And I also want them to hurry up already and release it everywhere, but that wouldn't be safe; slow we go! I'm trying to get you guys an early look
@@JJRicks Thanks for the awesome videos. Waymo's self-driving is really good. Quick question: why did the car say "entering construction zone" at the beginning? I did not see any construction zone. Thanks
I was very impressed with the left turn at 14:00. It looks like it paused just long enough to make sure the truck turning right wouldn't be in the way, but still made the tight gap.
similar reaction here. But I noticed that there is one car in the opposite direction going straight and a bit fast at the time Waymo is doing the unprotected left turn. I myself would think twice to whether turn left at that scenario but Waymo seems to just take the turn. It worried me a bit about this left turn as I don’t know if that car is recognized (not shown on the map though, not sure if it’s out of boundary)
Haha, the truck driver at the end was waving his hand like "sorry" and then got confused that there wasn't any driver in there, or did I see that wrong? xD
Great work creating these videos! One suggestion, you could speed up the “not so happening” portion of the ride. This would shrink up the videos a little bit and probably keep viewers interested throughout. Just a thought.
Have definitely thought about doing this, believe me. But for the time being I've decided to keep the editing as hands-off (pun intended) as possible, just to prove I'm not trying to cover up something bad. Will most definitely make a Waymo Best-of & Worst-of/interesting highlights video once there's enough content though
Does Waymo handle temporary lane closures properly? The car seems to have Pre-calculated its route. That’s why I’m curious what happens when it’s not allowed to follow this route because of a lane closure.
Sorry to ask this as this might be shown in previous videos. I’m really interested in the prices. What are the prices for a ride like this? It would be perfect if miles and time can be shared. Trying to understand the cost vs. Uber Lyft here
Pretty sweet! Someone else (www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/jv3oqp/figured_i_might_also_share_this_the_price/) crunched some numbers and came up with $3.84 base and $0.74/mile after
Could one accidentally touch those spinning LiDARs on the outside or are they protected by another casing which can't be easily seen in the video? PS: I would disable the assistive voice thingy.
@@JJRicks to be fair my car did not have the FSD beta. Unless you actually road in one that did. No one in Az has the FSD beta release yet that I know as of today.
It's more than Tesla seem to be able to manage. It was only recently that Tesla owners were excited that their cars could see traffic lights. Even then they still couldn't use that for driving, but they could show the traffic lights to the Tesla owners to get all excited about. As if the Tesla owner couldn't see the lights for themselves while driving. I was watching a Waymo tech video earlier, and they described how they don't just recognise 'a car', the can even recognise and react accordingly for emergency vehicles. They even had a real world video of the Waymo car giving way to an emergency vehicle. It only seems a short while ago that I was watching a Tesla owner video where the car couldn't even see the car right in front of it. It kept appearing and disappearing on the Tesla display. Waymo on the other hand use recurrent neural networks to build up confidence and persistence in the cars perception of what's around it. And let's not forget lidar. If you watch Tesla videos, you can see how Tesla struggles pinning down the position of things, or definitely detecting things. As the Waymo team say - lidar and vision are complementary. Vision is costly and flaky to use to detect distance, lidar is perfect for this. Vision is great for semantic recognition, classification, etc of the entities around the vehicle. Fuse the two together and you have something very powerful, and very dependable. The stability in the Waymo model shown in the videos is a world ahead of Tesla. That's largely coming about from the lidar, coupled with Waymo being years ahead even in the vision aspect. As another commenter mentions above... Waymo is real. Waymo is driving real self driving cars on the public road without a safety driver, right now. If you watch Tesla videos, Tesla still seem a world away from achieving that. Driver interventions where the Tesla can't cope, or the car reacted incorrectly are just still wwwaaaayyyyyy too many.
@@JJRicks Great to see the videos, most of your viewers, me included, really appreciate them. If you'd like a little feedback, I'd say that I actually preferred the video which I think it was your mum filming, where she had the camera hand held and was moving it around (plus your mum's reactions were great). When you have it set on the tripod with stabilisation, you kind of lose the feeling of motion and being in the moment. It was great when she panned around and could see the traffic as though you were looking over your shoulder in the car and also you got a better feeling of the motion and speed when the camera panned round through the door windows, and also occasionally looking through the rear window. Also you could look at how other drivers were reacting.
I can confirm all of these, I've personally seen Waymo react to emergency vehicles, and I've also ridden in a Model 3 with FSD and it had trouble recognizing cars. I have never ever seen Waymo miss or misidentify a car ever, not even once
