Not really a race. Waymo uses LIDAR, RADAR, and cameras. Last I checked Tesla only uses cameras.

Especially not a race when Waymos decide to descend upon a random cul-de-sac and gridlock themselves. :)

Which is probably mostly fine in sunny weather. But fuck if FSD hasn’t scared the fuck out of me when you get weather that obstructs cameras.

I heard that the Sun doesn’t light things up good enough at night. I heard that it is dark at night. Probably mostly stupid rumors, but lidars/etc wouldn’t harm anyway.

teslas has the ability to lock onto children and increase the speed.

Tesla got some strong orphan crushing game

Underrated feature. Some might also say underutilized

They had to roll that back after the cars kept targeting their petulant child of a CEO

I’d pay extra for that version.

probably identifies non- white afrikaaners.

Scale first where density works, then expand. Tesla has a real race on its hands.

Forgot for a second that I wasn’t on linkedin. Who the fuck talks like this?

Lol Tesla isnt even in the race, Waymo are kicking their ass.

Last mile work is great but fuck big tech, AI and surveillance

Yeah on the one hand, eliminating human drivers is great. On the other, Google.

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.

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.

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.