waymo

A Waymo making tens or hundreds of trips per day has a utilization rate far exceeding the average car.

The point here is that Waymo requires either an Android account or an Apple account to log into their phone app.

This may be worth a formal complaint to the California Public Utilities Commission, because Waymo is regulated as a common carrier.

And if the fleet as a whole racks up more than 4 points in 12 months, would Waymo loose it's license similar to human drivers?

Amazing Tortoise and the Hare situation with Waymo and Tesla.

And as suggested by another commenter in the thread, if the cars in the fleet (collectively) accumulate more than 4 points within 12 months, Waymo loses its license.

Seems like Waymo is beating them to robo-taxis.

I don't know how Waymo is going to square that circle.

So I assume Waymo will be immediately banned from any residential areas until they can demonstrate the ability to follow the laws of the road?

Can we get these Waymo death traps off the road?

Maybe the Waymo is technically speeding, but so is everyone else, because speed limits aren't magic, and if the de-facto limit ends up being 50 when the posted limit is 40 or 45, going slower creates extra conflict points for accidents.

> So I assume Waymo will be immediately banned from any residential areas until they can demonstrate the ability to follow the laws of the road?

I will let you judge for yourself here what the "right" thing for the Waymo to do was...

Waymo keeps racking up safe steady miles, rides, territory, markets, airports while Tesla hopes for a miracle that will make its "FSD" actually full self drive.

> Waymo, Cummings says, “should not be allowed to operate around schools during school pickup and drop-off until they get this problem fixed and can demonstrate it with specific tests.” This commentor must misunderstand the situation.

[1] If you look at waymo's prior blog posts, you'll realize that the people in Philippines aren't making split second decisions that was implied by "you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should".

In addition to Waymo, many other companies are working on driverless systems and they're all making good progress.

But also do low key wonder if the Waymo's response time and speed might be enough so that there's not much real risk.

We compensate at parity with tier-one AV companies (Tesla, Waymo) for this role.