> I guess it's easier to do when you have a stellar safety record.
... for the conditions that the Waymo vehicles operated in.
Deployment of Waymo FSD across the board would seem to be a sure win in SF and Phoenix, so I hope that it gets widely adopted in those areas at minimum since I think it will save a lot of lives. There's a lot of work to be done by Waymo yet to get it to work in other areas of the country and conditions, though.
SF is not an easy locale to test in. Sure, there is no snow, but the city is narrow, dense, with a lot of challenging situations including fog, rain, and crackheads. This success seems promising.
SF is a terrible city to drive in. Narrow streets, terrible hills, a huge diversity of traffic: pedestrians, cyclists, electric scooters, buses, light rail, trains. Highly congested. Plenty of tourists driving (it’s not like NY or London where people who are visiting know not to drive).
... for the conditions that the Waymo vehicles operated in.
Deployment of Waymo FSD across the board would seem to be a sure win in SF and Phoenix, so I hope that it gets widely adopted in those areas at minimum since I think it will save a lot of lives. There's a lot of work to be done by Waymo yet to get it to work in other areas of the country and conditions, though.