Tyler Crisp
Alice McFlurry 
Countdown until we learn that Waymo is similar to those Amazon stores where the self-driving cars are actually controlled by offices full of people who are playing a variation of Mario Kart in order to get us to our destinations.
I've used Waymo before and it's honestly fine as long as you remember that you need to pull the door handle twice when you're trying to escape from the car after it catches on fire or drives into a body of water.
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@Alice My life changed completely when I learned about physical exercise because Waymo took me to the wrong side of town and I had to walk home.
PB Livin'
Maggie@Alice pretty sure that already came out with Cruze! I'll update with an article when I can
Aurora - NOW celestiallavendar@icedoatmilk@coffee@Alice I could see them taking a similar approach as the the autonomous delivery wheeled robots on college campuses. They mostly drive by themselves, but then they have people with Xbox controllers that can take over if they get a notification that the robot needs help with something.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
Gnorzaps@Alice So true.
Senil888 
@Alice I imagine they have a top-down view of the car like the close-up map in Mario Kart DS.
-rb@Alice me: nav system, please avoid routing me onto Rainbow Road.
Phogna Bologna@Alice Having ridden waymo a few times:
1.) It is waaaay smoother than a human driver and stays exactly (surreally) in the middle of the lane, even on a left turn.
2.) It did not know not to block the entrance to the valet parking at the concert hall, requiring us to cover our faces as we sprinted away from the vehicle
1.) It is waaaay smoother than a human driver and stays exactly (surreally) in the middle of the lane, even on a left turn.
2.) It did not know not to block the entrance to the valet parking at the concert hall, requiring us to cover our faces as we sprinted away from the vehicle
@bransonturner Yeah, I had a good experience with Waymo and definitely appreciated not having a driver trying to make smalltalk, but the dumb car did stop in a right turn lane to pick us up which was kind of awkward as we were getting in, knowing we were holding up everyone else who was trying to turn.
Marty Fouts@Alice Waymo is operating under a program from CAL DMV that sets three classes of vehicles for them. Some areas require backup drivers in the vehicle, most require remote monitoring of the vehicle, while none yet allow unsupervised driving as far as I know. San Francisco is remotely monitored but the recent addition of Sunnyvale still requires drivers in the car. However Waymo does not remotely operate the vehicles unless there is an emergency.
@MartyFouts Thank you for the heads up about Sunnyvale! I feel like being stuck in a car with a person who isn't even driving who has ALL of the time in the world to chat would be even worse than your average Uber driver who's at least partially busy driving while trying to make awkward small talk.
@Alice In theory the emergency driver is supposed to monitor the vehicle and be able to take control immediately if there is a problem. In practice something called automation inattention means humans are bad at that.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@Alice @StillIRise1963 Is that eh... a secret?
There's a large fleet of people whose jobs it is to step in any time the automation can't figure it out.
Kyle Rose@Alice that explains all these banana peels on the road
jwz@Alice Countdown: T Minus 6 Months Ago.
"Cruse 'autonomous' vehicles require 1.5 drivers, and manual intervention every two and a half miles:"
https://jwz.org/b/ykFs
Once again, "AI" is revealed to be an army of mechanical turks in a call center.
Cruse "autonomous"vehicles require 1.5 drivers, and manual intervention every two and a half miles: Half of Cruise's 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless operations were stopped. Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle. The workers intervened to assist the company's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles, according to two people familiar ...
Tito Swineflu@Alice There was a waymo confused by the left turn lane on Folsom and Cesar Chavez last week. It's the first time I've seen one of them have a public freakout, unlike cruise.
AterNox@Alice ill be honest, I've read this a few times and laugh visualizing a aircraft hanger of people wearing vr goggles in car simulators driving folks around.
JacobRPG❌👑@Alice that explains the turtle shells orbiting around my waymo the other day.
ferricoxide@Alice
Better Mario Kart than GTA.
Better Mario Kart than GTA.