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Re:Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion ... by wanderingstan on Friday June 21, 2024 @04:03PM (#40753232)
In my experience they are very strict about finding a “safe” place to pick up and drop off, which often means turning onto a small side street or looking for a gap in parked cars. They won’t block traffic like a Lyft/Uber driver might.
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Re:Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion ... by crazygringo on Friday June 21, 2024 @06:17PM (#40754432)
> They won’t block traffic like a Lyft/Uber driver might.

Wow, then I don't know how they'd ever expand to NYC.

In most areas there's no such thing as a "safe place" that doesn't block traffic.

If there are sides of the road that aren't traffic (or bicycle) lanes, then they're taken up by parking.

Taxis, Ubers, delivery trucks -- literally everything just stops in the street (or bicycle lane) and traffic temporarily goes around it.

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Re:Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion ... by mupuff1234 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:20AM (#40756494)
They'll just have to change the behavior, I assume the current behavior is just out of caution not some technical limit.
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Re:Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion ... by crazygringo on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:03PM (#40768862)
It's because it's illegal to double-park.

Everyone in NYC does it because they have to, but Waymo is obeying the law.

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