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California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

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218 points NullHypothesist | 2 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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willio58 ◴[22 Nov 25 00:14 UTC] No.46010696[source]▶
I didn’t think I’d be so pro Waymo but anecdotally I had a fantastic experience with one recently.

I was at a music show very late ~1-2am in SF and walked out to grab an uber to the airbnb I was staying at. I kept getting assigned an uber, then I’d wait 10 minutes, then they’d cancel. Rinse and repeat for 30 minutes, mind you I even resorted to calling Lyfts at the same time and nothing bit. Then I say screw it and download Waymo. 1 minute and it’s accepted my ride, and I know it’s not going to cancel because it’s a robot. 3 minutes and it picks me up. The car is clean, quiet, I can play my own music in it via Spotify, and it’s driving honestly more safely than some uber drivers I’ve had in SF. It’s one of the few things where the end result actually lives up to the promise from a tech company.

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1. JuniperMesos ◴[22 Nov 25 02:23 UTC] No.46011489[source]▶
If you're playing it via Spotify, it's not your music, it's Spotify's. Waymo is cool technology but I am disappointed at how the app requires a Google account plus access to google play services on an Android phone, and how the streaming music feature requires some kind of protocol that only Spotify and some proprietary Google music app support. All of my music is stored on a personal server that I stream to my phone via Jellyfin, and this does not work in a Waymo.
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2. wilg ◴[22 Nov 25 02:24 UTC] No.46011498[source]▶
It's not your music unless you own the copyright, even if its on a disc or drive.