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Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows. Waymo now averaging 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week.
techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/waymo-is-scaling-fast-heres-what-the-fleet-data-shows/Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Waymo is quietly turning robotaxis from a tech demo into infrastructure. 500,000 paid rides a week, roughly 4,000 cars and 15 US cities is no longer a cute experiment. The interesting part: 80% of the fleet is still concentrated in California and Texas. Scale first where density works, then expand. Tesla has a real race on its hands.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Lol Tesla isnt even in the race, Waymo are kicking their ass.
Last mile work is great but fuck big tech, AI and surveillance
Replying to @Squizzy@lemmy.world
Yeah on the one hand, eliminating human drivers is great. On the other, Google.
Replying to @frongt@lemmy.zip
I’m wondering when we’ll see statistics on if these things are actually safer than human drivers. Anecdotally they’ve already almost hit me a couple times, when I was on foot and driving my own car. But I’m also a cynic, I’m not convinced these things will ever be bettet than human drivers.
Replying to @kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
I dont think we are there yet. It will be good in that people require personalisable last mile transport for trips home from pubs or grocery store where time,safety and precision are vital.
That said public transport needs to meet it.
Replying to @kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
Well, according to them we already have them: waymo.com/safety/impact/
There are some limited third-party studies also supporting this but to be fair I think there’s still more needed for independent verification. Of course, it also matters what exactly we consider safer, it is entirely possible that they could be the cause of more minor damage while also preventing deaths that would occur with humans at the controls.