Probably not on most feeds. If it was a Tesla……
It came up in my feed somewhere.
Interesting article about Chinese companies jumping into offering autonomous
taxi vehicles in UAE, Singapore, and Europe. A bit shocking of
how rapidly they are expanding beyond their home borders.
But Apollo Go, which has let its taxis loose in Dubai and Abu Dhabi as the Gulf states [court tech deals of all stripes], isn’t Waymo’s only challenger. The wheels of WeRide, another Chinese autonomous vehicle company, have touched down in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore. All of the significant players in the Chinese market are expanding in Europe, Reuters reports. Cars made by the firm Momenta and deployed by Uber are slated to start driving in Germany in 2026. WeRide, Baidu and Pony AI also have plans to begin robotaxi service in various European locales in the near future. Many more people are about to see self-driving cars in the course of their daily lives.
Good article on overview of Tesla Robotaxi deployment being available to 1/2 of the US population by end of year. 
Texas DMV has late April 2026 date for approvals and insurance requirements.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told Business Insider that autonomous vehicle operators like Tesla will be required to receive authorization for commercial use beginning May 28, 2026.
Waymos were all over the Phoenix area when we were there for the ASU game. Interesting, they were all Jaguars. None in my group would take one.
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Disturbing Waymo recall on school bus incidents.
This is sounding more and more like unintended consequences of software updates, for those that work in operating systems. Extensive regression testing does not seem to be the norm. Not good.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tabunit Waymo said Friday it would issue a recall for its self-driving vehicles after Texas officials said they illegally passed school buses at least 19 times since the start of the school year.
Waymo said a software issue contributed to self-driving vehicles initially slowing or stopping for a school bus then proceeding.
The recent software update will be applied under the recall, and a Waymo spokesperson said the company “will continue to track and implement more updates as needed.”
They said the Waymo stopped after it passed the school bus. This was after a software adjustment
I m guessing that dropping a hundie on the driver to “step on it” isn’t an option with robotaxis
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Now that is something I never foresaw.
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I thought you’re only allowed to post negative articles on Teslas?
Only in your mind.
And the posts on this thread.
Can’t help that you made the wrong conclusion. There’s plenty of Waymo criticism but feel free to post more if you think it is out of balance.
Bro reread the whole thread. Come on it’s just another way to bash Elon. It’s not a secret. Bleeding hearts are so obvious.
Now is it the mile long club?
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Key statement here -
detour.
“I think Waymo has a challenge because no matter what they do with their system, there are always going to be unexpected circumstances where they have to learn from them,” Maynard said.
This, to me, points to the basic flaw in the approach. I think the only workable
solution is having AGI capabilities in the car. But you can’t fit a data center full
of racked servers in a car. So we are left with this extensive road mapping technique that I think all the players do prior to deployments. And that can’t
compensate for day to day changes due to construction and sign updates for
detours.
OTOH, these cars don’t have the distracted human driver or road rage
problem, so overall they are probably safer or at least less likely to be involved
in accidents.
I could imagine a partnership between the self driving software companies and govt. whereas the companies funnel some revenue to govt for not changing anything on certain roads without scheduling it with everyone’s knowledge first.
This way certain high traffic public roads could have less variables and be safer for self-driving.
Your subtle (and not so subtle) complaints far outnumber any actual criticism.
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