Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic

Re:Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike... by datsci_est_2015 on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:56AM (#47922490)

Oh I guess I didn’t know the distinction. As a user of both I actually prefer the footpath based to the segregated bike lanes, although it seems to work best on the widest of Berlins streets where all of the following can coexist laterally:

  - Storefront
  - Outdoor seating 
  - Footpath (room for both ways)
  - Bike lane (one way)
  - Greenery (trees or shrubs)
  - Car door buffer
  - Parking lane
  - One or two lanes one way traffic
  - Green median
  - All the above mirrored for the other side

Example of this is Yorckstr. south of Mitte

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Re:Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike... by rsynnott on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:21AM (#47922836)

Inclined to agree; only real problem with the on-street ones (presuming there's enough room for them) is that visitors unfamiliar with them tend to walk in them and cause a nuisance. The first time I was in Berlin I nearly got hit by a couple of bikes before I realised that the slightly-differently-coloured footpath meant something...

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