Waymo

Waymo is fortunate to have a better reputation than the rest, but their incident rate is still not acceptable…

SF Standard – Supervisors grill Waymo about 1,500 stalled cars during December blackout

SF Standard reports that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors grilled Waymo on the epic disaster when 1,500 Waymos got stuck during a power outage. Waymo has still not acknowledged that a large part of the problem was that cellular communications completely went down for swaths of San Francisco once the backup batteries for the cell towers ran out of juice. Waymo's only solution for this problem is not talking about.

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NTSB report indicates Waymo remote support provided incorrect, unsafe, and illegal driving instructions when a stopped school bus encountered

We already knew that remote operators were involved in driving Waymo "autonomous" vehicles. But this NTSB report provides a concrete example of the remote operator dangerously providing incorrect information, causing the Waymo robotaxi to pass by a stopped school bus. Credit goes to Phil Koopman for calling out this problem.

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The Verge – Waymo’s next-gen robotaxi is ready for passengers — and also ‘high-volume production’

The Verge reports on Waymo talking around one of their biggest problems: they don't manufacture cars. Therefore they have to adapt their technology to a series of vehicles. And note that the Zeekr is a Chinese import which current has a 100% tariff levied.

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Waymo Reveals Remote Workers in Philippines Help Guide Its Driverless Cars

Newsweek reports that Waymo has finally publicly acknowledged that 1) their vehicles are not truly autonomous and need human help in driving in certain situations; and 2) this human driving help can be located many thousands of miles away, in the Philippines! No wonder Waymos run over kids and animals.

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TechCrunch – Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

TechCrunch reports that a Waymo struck and injured a child. Waymo falsely claims that their system is safer than a human driver in this situation. But the reality is that the Waymo vehicle was not even carrying a passenger. It was driving empty. If a vehicle is owned and operated by a person than it wouldn't have been making that trip in the first place, thus sparing the child from being hit.

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