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Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by HDThoreaun on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:39AM (#42737393)
Waymo is not self driving. It’s remote operated, much more expensive. People will not give up their vehicle for an expensive taxi service. There are no self driving cars that actually work and there are none on the horizon.
Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by whimsicalism on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:29AM (#42738547)
it’s not remote operated and it is also not much more expensive and i have no idea why you assume costs will be constant.

i take waymos all the time, often replacing my car, i have never had a single issue

Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by HDThoreaun on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:32AM (#42738589)
Literally so easy to find out that it’s remote operated with the operators taking over on average once per mile. That can’t scale in a cost effective way unless you only use it like once a week. People who need to drive everyday can’t afford it. Otherwise they’d just be ubering everywhere now instead of owning a car.
Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by whimsicalism on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:39AM (#42738728)
you literally do not know what you’re talking about, source me a number on the “once per mile” intervention - i’ve driven hundreds of miles in waymo and never had an intervention

of course they can scale in a cost effective manner, the operating costs are theoretically the same as just owning a car but they get to amortize it across many different users and don’t have to pay for human labor

Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by HDThoreaun on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:28PM (#42742272)
They do have to pay the human labor because it’s not self driving.
Re:California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after ... by whimsicalism on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:09PM (#42743261)
source your claims. i’m pretty sure waymo doesn’t even support remote operation as such, just waypoint drawing