Just getting in on this, Chrysler/Fiat (Stellantis group), Jaguar and Land Rover? It’s Waymo just programming these cars to go straight to the shop? Because those are all done the crappiest cars on the road today
Hyundai and Toyota are in the mix too now.
Hyundai accelerates self-driving technology development | Automotive Dive.
Well those would improvements in quality, and I stand by my review of those other brands.
Article that sizes up Waymo vs Tesla on self driving tech.
I guess “geofence” is the word of the day. hate to break it to you but Waymo is also geofenced. Tesla did get a permit to be a ride hailing service in the whole state of Texas.
Good for Tesla !
Now, are they still only doing ride by invitation with a human safety monitor in the front seat ? And of course invited riders get compensated if they post on X about it.
this permit also grants Tesla legal permission to operate its robotaxi vehicles with or without human safety drivers
With or without, lol.
You do realize that Waymo also started with an attendant, in the driver seat. Right?
It seems like that’s just part of the ramp up. But when Tesla does it, everyone is going nuts. I wonder why?
Because their CEO is prone to making outlandish statements and timelines, but some people keep buying it !
Examples.
Built plant capacity of 200,000 cybertrucks per year.
Reality - selling 5,000 units per quarter.
During Tesla’s July earnings call, CEO Elon Musk, who describes himself as “pathologically optimistic,” believes that Tesla’s robotaxi service could serve half of the U.S. population by the end of 2025,
Reality- 10-12 cars deployed in Austin, with invitation riders, and still using human
babysitters.
See the humor ?
Waymo has been human safety co-pilot free since 2020 - 5 Years.
Waymo has 1,500 driverless taxis on the road now in multiple cities.
These Waymo driverless taxis operate in several major US cities, including:
- Phoenix, Arizona
- San Francisco, California
- Los Angeles, California
- Austin, Texas
- Silicon Valley, California (for select riders)
- Atlanta, Georgia (waitlist)
If you dig technology, you have to acknowledge Waymo is way ahead in the race.
Kind of the way Tesla USED to be in EVs before their CEO went on “vacation “ and
tanked his car company.
I hope you can enjoy the humor in all that.
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Waymo did the same thing when they rolled out. I don’t see the humor, all I see is that some people got conned by their media.
Maybe you overlooked this response of Elon.
believes that Tesla’s robotaxi service could serve half of the U.S. population by the end of 2025,
That’s a little over 4 months away.
Are you buying that ?
Who said they weren’t? All I’m doing is showing that people’s disdain for anything Tesla is humorously ironic, because they could have said those same things when Waymo rolled out, but didn’t. So your objection is that Tesla is behind Waymo? So be it. What will happen when Tesla catches up? I’m sure you’ll have some other negative thing to bring up because it didn’t stand up to some impossible standard you set for Tesla but not Waymo?
Wow, so that’s it, because they didn’t make their timelines? lol. Well that does it, Robotaxi is inferior because it didn’t make the estimated roll out time. I guess you’re not flying any Boeing planes then?
Look at the sensor packages; there is no comparison. It seems there
is only one odd fish that insists on cameras only.
And what does Boeing have to do with self driving autos ?
Computer systems make vehicles go crash?
The news comes just two months after the company said it filed permits to test its cars in the city with a trained specialist behind the wheel.
I guess people don’t hate on the Boeing CEO, or their media don’t cover it, because all their new planes the past 15 years have had delayed releases from their projected announcements. The latest model, the 777X is like 5-6 years behind schedule. Liars!
I’d say it is well known that Boeing has been a disaster the last 10 years or whatever. Also been covered well in the media. However, no one could name the Boeing CEO because he or she didn’t push themselves out as a high profile genius like the Tesla CEO, nor have they reached billionaire status. The Boeing CEO isn’t synonymous with Boeing as a company either. So yes, they are looked at differently, right or wrong.
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Musk begs for attention and publicly opines on stuff way outside what his company does. He’s also the richest guy in the world and runs a company 7X the size of Boeing.
I really don’t think you compare the situations at all.
That said, Boeing has been getting plenty of bad press as a company.
But divorced of the CEO, the product should be looked on its merit. They’ve tainted their point of view on a product by their opinion of the CEO. Which shows on the way they’ve pointed out every little negative thing for Robotaxi yet no mention of the exact same things for Waymo.
On its merits, the product is far inferior at this point in time. But if you
buy into the Musk propaganda, it will be serving half of America by end of 2025.
Nevermind he hasn’t gotten the approval from Texas DMV to run without a safety
backup driver at this point.