Re:CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving
by quadrifoliate on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:36PM
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> You can, today, go to Pheonix Arizona, download the Waymo One app, and summon a full self driving vehicle.
Consider Google's (okay, Alphabet's) standards for success though.
My guess is that a metro area with less than 0.5% of the US population does not qualify as a successful product. Maybe as a successful small beta test.
Also, given Arizona's overly cozy relationship with self-driving [1], I would not necessarily trust a program too much on the basis that it's operating there.
Consider Google's (okay, Alphabet's) standards for success though.
My guess is that a metro area with less than 0.5% of the US population does not qualify as a successful product. Maybe as a successful small beta test.
Also, given Arizona's overly cozy relationship with self-driving [1], I would not necessarily trust a program too much on the basis that it's operating there.
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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/28/uber-ariz...