Notice the PD and other road users had to make way for the robot & then wait while it gives them ~no feedback/status so ppl can only guess what's going on with it and whether it will suddenly move or never move and need tow/rescue.

Lotta these videos.

Such a very broken system.

Scale...profit.

Whoa, Waymo has human safety drivers in some of their robots in every one of the cities you listed and in all of their robots in some of the cities you listed.

Moreover, their uncrewed/driverless robots often fail hard requiring Waymo to send a person to them to takeover and drive them away.

If it is an empty robot and this is in a Waymo ridehail service area, then it is almost certainly being parked there bc it is free, usually available, and not far from where Waymo predicts rides will originate. Their robots spend about as much time (re)positioning and parked as conveying passengers.

Pastafarianism, the truthy as an LLM religion

Bribing POTUS is an inherent use and apparently much coveted by many other politicians.

Double secret plan to veganize America.

Might have included Zoox service map to give your readers a more accurate picture of what they are doing.

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BTW, this all but guarantees Waymo's ridehail service in San Francisco won't grow much more, like they'd already stopped growing in their oldest geo, AZ. Waymo had been tapering growth in SF for the past ~year or so, per their CPUC reports.

Waymo prob accounts for ~2% of surface VMT in SF proper.

Waymo is spreading themselves thinner and thinner operationally.

Good luck all.

They've been profitable since they effectively formed a duopoly in the US by nearly eliminating the subsidies they used to capture and grow their market. Happened in 2020-2021 when the pandemic wiped out their easy funding and first Lyft then Uber capitulated, after collectively losing ~$42 Biilion.

Their failure rates are astounding for a lifesafety system (5k lbs & 400 hp).

from a thread on this:

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Waymo can't operate without

- special robots-only state regs allowing their failed robots to stop indefinitely in traffic for no good/apparent reason

- remote human operators (telops) their robots are on the phone w ~5% of the time but often fail requiring field rescue

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Waymo has as many or more lobbyists registered just for the city of Nashville as the Federal gov has staff in NHTSA's vehicle automation team since DOGE fired nearly half of them back in February.

"anybody who looks like they might conceivably be an international student" to a goon with a quota