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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 03 2019, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the waymo-gate? dept.

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Waymo finally let a reporter ride in a fully driverless car

It's been almost two years since Waymo first announced that it was testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. Not long afterwards, the company said it planned to offer a fully driverless service to the public by the end of 2018.

The rollout has been a lot slower than expected. Over the course of 2018, most of Waymo's cars continued to have drivers behind the wheel. When Waymo launched its commercial service in December 2018, every car had a driver behind the wheel.

But now Waymo seems to be cautiously moving forward with fully driverless technology. Last month, Waymo told people in its closed testing program that they'd start getting rides in driverless vehicles. Now in a new piece for Techcrunch, Ed Niedermeyer reports on his own experience riding in a fully driverless car.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 03 2019, @06:46PM (4 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 03 2019, @06:46PM (#915393) Homepage

    Probably be a lot cheaper to have a Muslim, or perhaps a drunken Mexican illegal alien, do it in a regular car rather than install all those expensive electronics in a self-driving car.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @06:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @06:56PM (#915398)
    In the long term it is not cheaper. You'd need to import drivers all the time. Once the self-drive computer is ready, it is trivial to mass-produce. Future is not in human slavery, it is in automation of repetitive, difficult jobs. Mexican drivers will have a chance to do something better than to stare at the road most of their life.
  • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Sunday November 03 2019, @07:19PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday November 03 2019, @07:19PM (#915414) Journal

    Full self-driving capability will probably be worth less than $5,000 in the long run. Maybe $1,000 (in the BOM).

    The hard part will be dealing with the drunk passengers. Maybe give them 2 minutes to get out of the car, then drop them off at the hospital if they don't respond. And make the seats easy to remove and clean at home base.

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    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 03 2019, @10:41PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 03 2019, @10:41PM (#915462) Homepage

      This [youtube.com] is a really awesome theme song. I hope to listen to it one day when I'm a fat senior citizen drinking in bars all day.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @06:50AM (#915639)

      So, an AI to detect my state of mind and refuse service based on some criteria chosen by the Deep State Collective Hive Mind Gaia? Pssshyeahrrright.