Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

It's fascinating seeing all the comments elsewhere anytime Waymo starts testing in another city along the lines of, "ah, but how will they handle X, Y, and Z here?? Checkmate, robots!" despite having already launched service in several other cities.

Granted, NYC is the biggest city in the US, so maybe that sort of reaction is more reasonable there than when people in Dallas or Boston do it.

Since Waymo is very reliable in LA and SF, you will be just fine in NYC.

Your grid system is far less of a challenge than the amount of hills, twists, narrow streets and low visibility back streets in California.

I genuinely think the most complicated challenge for Waymo in NYC will be…winter snow and ice.

LA and SF are not close to close to the complexity of nyc traffic and pedestrian culture

TIL.

LA doesn’t have complex traffic? What sort of traffic do we have in LA then?

LA is walkable, it’s lazy (and mostly incorrect) to say LA isn’t walkable.

LA County is massive, and depending on where you want to pick a comparison from, you may prove yourself either right or wrong.