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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by aetherson on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:32PM (#14295330)
Waymo's Phoenix test will include an employee in the driver's seat ready to take over. (See: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/technology/waymo-to-offer..., and note the sentence "All the Waymo cars will have a technician who can take control in an emergency.")

Elon Musk said that Tesla's driverless technology was "probably better than a person" more than a year ago. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/11...). What I'm saying is, Musk is a big promoter of Tesla and taking his ideas of when the technology will be ready at 100% face value is foolish.

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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by joshuamorton on Monday May 08, 2017 @07:22PM (#14296502)
>All the Waymo cars will have a technician who can take control in an emergency.

This is likely more due to regulatory reasons than anything else. Waymo's cars have an exceedingly low rate of required intervention.

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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by keeptrying on Monday May 08, 2017 @09:34PM (#14297084)
In Palo Alto.
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Re:Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks? by joshuamorton on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:13PM (#14303435)
And Tahoe (light snow) and Seattle (rain/fog) and a couple of other places. Sure, most testing has been in the Bay Area (although at this point I'm not actually sure if that's the case anymore).
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