"SA FIRE responded to a two vehicle accident involving a WAYMO. Fire says no one was hurt. WAYMO Reps. Say there was a human operator the was involved in an accident. Fire says no one was transported. Police investigating."
OP: x.gene78577
"human operator" doesn't tell us if ADS was engaged.
"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.
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.
Among the less to never discussed issues/problems w accounting for ADS safety is how to account for the many (>k) crashes that have occurred during the wide variety of non-commercial driving necessary for the commercial driving, eg during testing, mapping, recovery, and manual driving.
"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.
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.