Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in Phoenix

Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by wetpaws on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:27PM (#24724603)

Pretty sure this is intentional. Waymo had an insane (decades) head start in regards to self driving technology and was notably quiet about it.

While Uber and other folks are all boasting about their self driving project and collecting the lion share of controversy and unwanted attention, waymo is quietly, step by step, heading towards it's total dominance, staying completely off the radar.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by dzhiurgis on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:18PM (#24725734)

> staying completely off the radar.

*off the LIDAR.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by nmstoker on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:36PM (#24724673)

I think you're spot on here. Whilst I suspect they've a long way to go, it seems likely to mirror the situation Google had with early search growth where the more they had people use it the better it got, quickly feeding a cycle the competitors could not compete with.

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Re:Waymo is opening its driverless service to more people in... by jliptzin on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:45PM (#24726589)

Tesla?

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