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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by jellojello on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:27AM (#46922263)
waymo just hit it's first pedestrian, ever. It did it at a speed of 6mph and it was estimated a human would have hit the kid at 14mph (it was going 17mph when a small child jumped out in front of it from behind a black suv.

First pedestrian struck. That's crazy.

Tesla just disengages fsd anytime a sensor is slightly blocked/covered/blinded.. waymo out here doing fsd 100% of the time and basically never hurts anyone.

I don't get the tesla/elon love here, i like my model 3 but it's never going to get real fsd, and that sucks, elon also lies about the roadmap, timing, etc. I bet the roadster is canceled now. Why do people like inferior sensors and autistic hitler?

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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by johnthewise on Saturday February 07, 2026 @08:35AM (#46923744)
Waymos disengage and get tele operated too?
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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by kube-system on Saturday February 07, 2026 @10:28AM (#46924617)
Not really. Waymos can’t be driven remotely, their remote operators can give the car directions, e.g. “use this lane”, and then the autonomous system controls the vehicle to execute those directions.

I’m sure latency and connectivity is too much of an risk to do it any other way.

The only Waymos driven by a human are the ones with human drivers physically in the car

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