And boom, Waymo shutdown in Orlando bc...rain.
Waymo has shutdown ridehail service for rain in every geo in the past 9 months.
Waymo remains shutdown in San Antonio, 51 days and counting.
Waymo risked expanding w a known serious defect. Now they gotta watch weather in ~10 metros closely. FAFO.
"It took us 1 hour to get home 15 minutes away. Cops tried to pull us over 5x before they realized there was no driver...so humiliating 😂 like we just sittin in the back and cant do anything"
OP: tiktok.thehoustonfoodie
Waymo is back in Houston and still getting stuck in puddles, evidently.
"we are here to help"
"here" in another state or country, definitely not there where you are, having to walk away from our failed robot.
"I'll never ride in a Waymo ever again"
OP: tiktok.alexandriavictoria__, Austin
Either the robot failed hard or Waymo telops were too busy or too incompetent.
Waymo is sponsoring a "car-free" event in Atlanta this weekend, despite being a car tech mfg whose robots/cars have repeatedly screwing up what should have been robot-free events in Atlanta.
Notice Atlanta police usually have had to handle Waymo's failures in this thread.
bsky.app/profile/anic...
11 days from the first anniversary of Tesla's "robotaxi" launch in Austin, Tesla has only "there are dozens of us" robots serving ~12% of the Austin metro/MSA area and without any uncrewed ops anywhere else, AFAICT.
Among the biggest, most effective, and longest running PR stunts in AV/ADS history.
Another example of a Waymo robot that:
- evidently correctly identified traffic controls (cones and road barriers)
- didn't behave accordingly/appropriately and persisted in "planning" to drive through them but fortunately didn't
- instead failing in place
You gotta know when to walk away.
