It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Rides Surpassed

Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by ricardobeat on Sunday June 01, 2025 @05:26AM (#44149655)

> In San Francisco, self-driving cars are now more of a tourist attraction than cable cars

You can't actually ride one as a tourist, since it requires a USA-based Apple Store account and local credit card.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by julianz on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:12AM (#44150045)

My colleagues took one a week ago and are both Android users from New Zealand, so I don't think that's true?

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by ricardobeat on Sunday June 01, 2025 @09:14AM (#44150639)

May be different for Android then? It was definitely true for me when I visited not long ago.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by fredthestair on Sunday June 01, 2025 @10:32AM (#44151158)

I stopped using Apple stuff in any capacity because of their regioning of accounts a long time ago, so it being unique to them wouldn't surprise me.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by porridgeraisin on Sunday June 01, 2025 @10:12AM (#44151029)

Yea, my relatives (india) with one android and one iphone took a couple as well in san francicso.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by ricardobeat on Sunday June 01, 2025 @11:27AM (#44151585)

Would love to know how for next time - the app is only available in the US app store, and I had no luck requesting Uber EV.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by underdeserver on Sunday June 01, 2025 @06:27AM (#44149856)

I think they people coming from other parts of the US.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by watwut on Sunday June 01, 2025 @09:19AM (#44150662)

There are no American tourists in America?

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by apercu on Sunday June 01, 2025 @09:34AM (#44150745)

A couple Canadian friends of mine rode in one two weeks ago so I don’t think that’s true?

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by jinpa_zangpo on Sunday June 01, 2025 @10:00AM (#44150925)

Hard to believe an Alphabet company doesn't support Android.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by kvakkefly on Sunday June 01, 2025 @01:34PM (#44152480)

Im Norwegian and have used it several times in the US.

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Re:It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. 10M Ride... by ricardobeat on Sunday June 01, 2025 @03:57PM (#44153384)

How did you do it, is the app downloadable in the norwegian App Store?

In the Netherlands store the Waymo One app is not available, I thought it would be the same for other countries but apparently I was wrong.

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