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California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

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218 points NullHypothesist | 3 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.556s | source
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Fricken ◴[21 Nov 25 23:02 UTC] No.46010109[source]▶
It's been a long time coming, but Waymo is doing it. Waymo is scaleable and on the march! They've been announcing plans to roll out in new cities every month or 2 all year, and by the end of 2026 they'll be testing or offering the public rides over 30 metropolitan areas.

I'm most curious to see how they do in the winter city of Minneapolis over the next several months.

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njarboe ◴[21 Nov 25 23:48 UTC] No.46010499[source]▶
Competition does encourage action. Glad Tesla started rolling out their robotaxies.
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hintklb ◴[22 Nov 25 01:14 UTC] No.46011116[source]▶
Tesla is not competition to Waymo.

There are 10 other companies that are currently testing without a driver. Those are competition.

Tesla so far is a gimmick of self-driving with a safety driver that takes over once in a while. That's where Waymo was more than 5 years ago.

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1. qwerpy ◴[22 Nov 25 01:25 UTC] No.46011191[source]▶
The recent version of FSD in my Tesla is pretty amazing. Press "Start FSD" when in my driveway, and 20 minutes later it arrives at my destination and parks, without any input from me the entire time. I was skeptical too about FSD for a while but I'm starting to believe. These days I pretty much only disengage it when I'm impatient that it's being too polite. Unsupervised isn't far off!
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2. nutjob2 ◴[22 Nov 25 02:47 UTC] No.46011604[source]▶
One successful ride on one route is not dispositive
3. njarboe ◴[22 Nov 25 04:00 UTC] No.46011987[source]▶
I hope so. Similarly I only disengage when I want to go faster or forget to set the destination.

Too bad the owners of FSD can't decide that they want unsupervised. In an earlier or different world that would be possible.