Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco

Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by wiremine on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:32PM (#30859791)

Good point. That extends the ROI of the original investment, so it feels like a no brainer.

The big assumption is the retrofit market. Is that something anyone is talking about? Is that something Waymo and the like will be offering?

My point is: it makes sense, but is it the low hanging fruit someone will be going after right way? Or will this happen down the road?

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by gpt5 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:09PM (#30860809)

In a way, Waymo is already in that business - as all the cars they use are retrofitted.

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by Retric on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:23PM (#30862843)

Waymo is solving this for a handful of specific models, they would need to do significant work to adapt their system to say a 2010 Corolla let alone more exotic stuff.

It’s not just physical instillation their models would have to be adapted for different camera placement, vehicle weight, etc.

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by jfoster on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:35PM (#30862924)

But not to the point where they are selling kits. They retrofit a specific vehicle for use in their service.

I think CommaAI is the closest to a kit, but it probably will never quite reach "no-human-required" autonomous driving; I don't think they're even aiming for that.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/docs/CARS.m...

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