Sense, Solve, and Go: The Magic of the Waymo Driver
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2022
- How have we built our autonomous driving technology to navigate the world safely? It comes down to three easy steps: Sense, Solve, and Go. Using a combination of lidar, camera, radar, and compute, the Waymo Driver can visualize the world, calculate what others may do, and proceed smoothly and safely, day and night.
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As someone who is visually impaired I get so pumped seeing how far this technology is going. Can't drive, so the idea of getting to be in a car by myself and have it drive wherever I want is like a dream.
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Hope you get to use services like this everywhere soon. Sorry to hear you can’t drive. Must make things challenging. Hope you doing well.
@@Findthatyeti Thanks that's really nice of you to say. I do alright though. It's just exciting to think of having my own car one day. I live in Canada so it might be a while. I'm sure there is going to have to be a lot of testing for icy and snowy roads.
@@Kai_RC oh dang. That’s true. I forgot about the weather conditions.
I've had nightmares of that when I was a kid
I'm a 67 YO Technologist who has lived in the Phoenix area for 60 years. Although I've never taken a Waymo car before I think I'll try it out very soon. During my whole adult life I've only ever had technology jobs, mostly in the Phoenix area in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. I've spent my life working with very intelligent and talented people, both young and old. I trust those technologists and so I'm going to ride a Waymo very soon.
Hello. Excuse me, what's your career?
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I tried the Waymo vehicle a few weeks ago in San Francisco.
@@Franco1949That's nice
As an avid passenger in San Francisco, I LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE this! Pros heavily outweigh the cons compared to a traditional cab/rideshare. I just hope they continue putting more on the road! And I hope that in the near future our cars will have this capability
Amazing how Waymo's hardwork pays off during these years. This is really something we need to look out in our innovative technology these days. There would be alot of doubts and questions but I just hope this would be normalize in a couple of more years.
I have driven in a Waymo twice now and all I can say is “Welcome to the Future of Transportation.”
I just got my invite. I’m scarrrrreeedddd but excited 😂😂
We as a world need this technology now. The horrible tragedy of lives lost to bad drivers is too great. Lost a friend over the weekend who was in a collision. Other driver t-boned my friend's vehicle. Friend died, culprit driver was airlifted and survived. Such a cruel world, we need to eliminate human error from driving.
Human error is fixable robots aren’t they make more errors
Would love for these to be available for purchase as personal vehicles one day
Would be nice for those who can’t drive or choose not to drive to still have the freedom of owning a personal vehicle, traveling using that personal vehicle, riding in the driver’s seat if they want, etc
nah. you would share it with other people like a taxi.
Yeah, totally get it. I know a couple of people with epilepsy and they would find that sense of "freedom" that they have lost.
Yeah I hope so too!! It would mean the world to me if I could own self driving car like this instead of just using it for taxis!
I newly relocated to SF from LA and I have to say, after 2 Uber rides with smelly drivers and cars, I’ve had enough. I need Waymo one! ☝🏾 Now!!!
they have it in LA now you just need to join the waitlist, I went on it several times already
@@yisroelbinstok1122 I meant I don’t know why but 2 out of 2 Ubers (or 100%) in SF r smelly in LA so u kind of have no choice 😅 but good to know it’s also in LA now!
@@annxiao7721Indian food
No road rage when you cut in front of a Waymo. They politely stop and let you go ahead.
Why would you cut in front of a Waymo anyway?
That’s because technology is much more smarter than idiot people.
How come Waymo isn't getting as much hype as Tesla when it's clearly ahead of the self-driving game?
Because there are many many more Tesla vehicles than Waymo vehicles. And because Tesla's CEO is a famous person.
I think people think it’s fake!
Really helps to have a professional conman as your CEO
@@_____case Tesla cars are NOT autonomous. Having a CEO who tends to exaggerate and do marketting using bullshit stories goes a long way given the gullible population.
@@est9949it is now. New update is insane
I've been eyeballing the one successfully navigating my neighborhood with precision and unbelievable awareness these past few days. Skateboards, bikes, scooters, cars, pedestrians, orange cones, double parking, construction...It's Koreatown LA, the mini Manhattan of the Southland, so I can go on & on about the hazards we face😂
That's why I can't wait to see it arrive here in seattle. That way I'd like to get a chance to be one of the first ones to ride in one of those. And the reason why I say this is very simple. I think what's going to end up happening is that some of us blind people and the disabled will have to learn how to use the technology and to use their app to basically bring the car to us and then we can just get in it and go. All we have to do is put in the address where we need to go or put in the business name and it will basically take us to that business that we need to go to. If we need to go to McDonald's to go grab something to eat all I have to do is just say take me to McDonald's and it will tell me where the nearest McDonald's is and then after that it will just take me right straight there. No need to catch a bus or two. It will do it all in one fell swoop. Who knows it could also take me to my bank to make sure I can get the rent paid. As a matter of fact I just heard about it the other day that waymo is coming to Seattle. And it won't be long now before they start testing these cars here in the area. and hopefully what they will do is make sure these cars are not only tested in Seattle but in King county washington. So I think we better wait and see what happens until they put those things together.
If only they had some type of service that could deliver food to people.
Just took one this morning Scottsdale, AZ Kinda eerie and cool at the same time
This is such an amazing leap. The fact that it can coexist with incredibly unpredictable driving behavior of humans is amazing. Imagine if it was driving along with a massive fleet/ large percent of others that are automated. Driving would be incredibly efficient. I wonder if our grand kids/kids will see this.
I love Waymo. Please come to Germany.I need this Driver-
I ❤ driverless cars! The rides I had were great and can't wait to have some trips in the daytime as well. Keep up the good work! Your progress so far has been amazing!
Look forward to trying this soon.
Amen! Can I call one yet? Been anxiously waiting for years. 😉
I'm not sure I'd call the sensor design "elegant", but I did take a couple of rides in LA during a tour event and was impressed with the experience.
I have been looking for driveless vehicles all my life. Finally its here. The new uber and lyft cannnot wait. Ceo owner says its going to be cheaper than uber and lyft. When they come to detrot michigan. I will be using it as my new uber and lyft. And its going to be cheaper.
Hoping WAYMO grow so they can service in Southeast Asia. Also the WAYMO is exactly portrayed by DETROIT BECOME HUMAN autonomous taxi. Wish I can ride one someday
This is really cool
What happens when someone hacks into one of these things and plows it into a crowd of people
This is actually a pretty good question.
Saw one of these driving around in San Francisco months ago, now I finally know what it is!
I just saw one of these for the first time and it was blocking lanes trying to get out of a mall parking lot in Scottsdale.
This was a great video, but I wish they put this tech in a minibus like the Baidu Apolong II minibus or Polaris Gem (May Mobility's earlier model). That would help demonstrate a "minimally viable product" that could profitably scale while being helpful to urban problems of congestion and really moving the ball on environmental sustainability goals. They should work to improve and complement existing public transit models with automation, not enable more auto dependency and suburban sprawl. Ideally, AVs will soon allow for the redevelopment of overbuilt parking lots and garages to become affordable housing and mixed-use urban villages where daily needs can be accomplished with walking, biking, or micromobility.
It was a great video. Yes, let’s try navigating the urban landscapes of the United States in a golf cart that has a top speed of 24mph. As for your Red ignorance, let’s stick with that thought but knock it down to about 21mph. You plan to have people patiently wait their turn to reach a destination too I take it? Or are you just asking for fixed routes that remain extremely distant from where people actually work and live? You can shove your micro-village pipe dream as people are delivered to their car. You are aware the city depicted is San Francisco correct? Are you familiar with the other market Waymo is operating in? Chandler, Mesa, Tempe and Gilbert, Arizona at 21-24mph would result in death. If you are not lucky enough to be plowed into during your first 17 miles; suicidal ideations seem likely.
There will be no way to reach the suburbs or city efficiently, safely or profitably (zero demand). Micromobility! Meeting daily NEEDS is all? Aren’t you just a gem?! You believe Americans motivation for transportation is ‘driven’ by NEEDS. Above average composition there sir….completely asinine reasoning. AVs will lower congestion significantly due to drivers with similar reasoning being removed. I thoroughly enjoyed my year abroad in Copenhagen, but there is absolutely nothing micro about the United States. (Also it only takes one glance at a headshot to quickly denounce the likelihood of you ever riding a bike….anywhere)
I love self-driving cars. I feel safer and ensure security
I wonder whether this is currently financially worthwhile for Waymo. The business model will definitely be very interesting. Having so many sensors integrated in a car is costly.
Exciting!
I see this 🚗 car most time I look so nice
Clearly explained.
i've seen them around west hollywood really cool how they can drive totally fine in traffic
This still looks like magic.
Man ist geschockt, wenn man zum ersten Mal selbstfahrende Autos sieht. In San Francisco konnte ich es beobachten und dachte als erstes, ich bin im Since-Fiction Film. 😅
Any news on bad weather conditions like snow? Nobody wants to see a taxi service go offline in a blizzard when they most need a ride.
if it's a proper blizzard the recommendation is not to go out and taxi services r reduced
.....that said if there is visibility for the cameras and radar and lidar there is no reason they couldn't make it work .....but they want to be extra safe while developing it since there is no one behind the wheel
.....the important part is cars without drivers already exist and work today ....it's not something in the future anymore
I'm not sure there's any reason the service would have to go offline just because the car isn't driving itself. Human drivers can still be made available to drive on days where conditions like this are expected. Today we already see that Waymo employs human drivers for test driving and even to be in the vehicles when weather conditions make things more uncertain. This is one of the reasons self-driving cars work better as a service right now than they do for private ownership. Services can be flexible.
Why are you going out in a blizzard?
@@heatguyjr , it could be a doctor, commuting to her workplace, to a 20+ hour shift. The opportunity to catch a few extra minutes of sleep during a taxi commute could be a great help. Doctors don't stop working in blizzards.
I can take waymo to my doctor's appointments when I need to. And since I'm blind in one eye and disabled? I can get around much easier in a self-driving car. I would on a city bus or Link light rail. But I will wait until it comes to Seattle soon! They're already tested in a little town called Bellevue Washington which is east of Seattle right now. So when I come into Bellevue I expect to have a self-driving car wait for me when I arrive to go to where I need to go in Bellevue!
I hope we get it in the Los Angeles South Bay area as well 🙌
How is the accuracy in stormy weather like snow etc
They have this in nyc???
Awesome video!
lets goo!
I need this🚗❤
Waymo. I WAITED SOO LONG FOR THIS INVENTION. COME TO DETROIT MICHIGAN. I NEED WAYMO. I CAN STOP RELIEING ON UBER AND LYFT. PLZ MAKE DETROIT MICHIGAN YOUR NEXT DESTINATION AND LOCATION TO START WAYMO.
Uber and Lyft aren't soulless entities. That's real people you are talking about! Who drive those cars and for the most of us are here to be nice and still get paid, driving their own cars, paying taxes just like you and playing their part in fueling society. Who have families just like you and providing a service just like yourself. Imagine the lovely career you have now and suddenly someone invents an android to replace you! I bet you wouldn't feel so good then about your crass comments.
How long was the waitlist?
Okay, but can I send the car to target to do a drive up/ pick up order for me?
if i call a waymo uber, what will there be any music or it will just be completely silence?
Come to Miami
It's waymo!
How does it do in rain or snow I wonder?
But why it is not used in India? Please tell waymo LLC
How does the car react when another car coming for collision? Does it try to avoid or wait for impact? Does the car stop if some sensor are malfunctioning? What will happen if some hackers get the control of the car?
It doesn't have a singl sensor, ther are multiple anti fails.
Also it will just stop if something is close
Self-driving cars will all drive in SEquence and it will eliminate traffic accidents
Just saw one of these half an hour ago. Thats why im here. Thought it was a google maps car until i realized that those dont drive at night. So i looked it up. Pretty insane world were living in.
You can see these cars driving around with no one at all in them here in Phoenix. I guess they're going to pick up the next rider. It looks strange seeing a car driving all by itself but it also looks great.
@@joesitter20101that would trip me out the first time I think lol
Please come visit Malaysia #waymo
Waymo closer to a lot of people being jobless
カワイイデザインですねｗ
How can ℹ invest in this ?
As much as I want this, I feel like this can only truly work in cities that don’t have adverse weather patterns. One snow fall and I’m sure this thing will need help.
I am sure in time AV's will be able to handel any weather
I think the combination of cameras, radar (which can see through fog) and lidar make this system more resilient against adverse weather compared to systems that only use cameras for navigation
I live in Tempe Arizona where the weather is lovely all year round. I see these vehicles quite often and had no idea what they were. Recently I overheard some co workers talking about these vehicles and I just became more confused. These co workers are not the smartest but they truly believed that these cars purpose was to spy in the areas of cities where there is known criminal activity.. Of course this crazy sounding but watching this video made me even more confused. First of all they look completely automated and I am sure they are but 100% of the times I saw them there was someone (driver?) sitting in the front seat. Even more strange I have never seen anyone sitting in the back seat. Never have I seen one driving alone. Always always always they drive around with one passenger only and that passenger I'd always in the driver seat.
I just got back from Tempe and they definitely are real lol. At first I was so creeped out but then I was intrigued to try if. I used them to get around to restaurants and my hotel. It was SOOOO COOL! And it was incredible how safe it was. I was impressed beyond belief!
And they do drive alone! I think there are some that have a driver to assist maybe for different routes? But they were driving by themselves!!
Now, we need to test the AI in Vietnam, it would learn a lot 🤣
Dont these require pre-scanning everything before it drives, and it cant go outside that? Crutches don't scale and digital rails are painting oneself into a corner.
I enjoyed my ride from the airport to the hotel
Which airport?
This is the real deal compared to the disaster thats FSD.
By the way , how to get invite code
How many self-driving autonomous cars created?
Can you sit in the waymo's driver seat wvile the car is driving it's own
No
This reminded me of an apple commercial
Titles seem super important at Waymo
It is best for daily check city change for GPS correction and alert of concern new change to city council administration
When it's coming to UK
We love that you're eager to experience the Waymo Driver! We're currently focused on perfecting our ride-hailing services in Phoenix, LA, Austin, and San Francisco. Stay tuned to our feed for future updates on our progress.
I need an invitation code
Bring get to los Angeles
How would road rage work now with this 😂
The future is already here.
Where are the Tesla fan boys?
Crying because Waymo doesnt exclusively use cameras for it's data input, but instead relys on more sensors and more information.
И сколько будет установить это на 100 машин? Один миллиард долларов?
Whats the point?
Let's think, are you a driver. And you see in front of you a lorry, loaded with big (but lightweight) styrofoam boards. Or paper sheets. Suddenly, one board (or sheet) is blown by the wind and is close to landing on your bonnet. As a human driver, you are sure that board is not made of concrete, granite, or steel. Thus, you can ignore it. But, how a robot knows that? He can hard brake / or hard turn, for no reason.. And the "obstacle" list can continue: a broken flag flying away above the street, a newspaper, a small dog running across... By the way, we know, after a ball or an air balloon rolls across the street, there are more chances for a small child to jump to catch it. We know that. The robot, knows??
Yes in those very specific scenarios a self driving car would probably do worse than your average driver. However how often do these types of situations happen? In my opinion almost never. I personally have never had this type of situation happen to me in my limited 4 years of driving experience. Now how many times do car accidents happen because of really stupid human error such as wrong way driving, texting while driving, drunk driving, people not using their blinker, people not checking their blind spots, road rage, etc. I think the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. If the point you’re making is I wouldn’t trust a computer to be my driver when i could drive safer myself than that’s valid.
A robot should know that paper sheets are not a threat it should apply hard braking for. After all, there is also tree leaf that can fly around and the car must understand that leaf is not a threat. So, in theory you can train it to identify patterns of flying objects. If an object falls straight down then most likely it can hurt the car and it must stop, but if an object flies around like a leaf then the car shouldn't be worried about it, unless it doesn't stick to one of its cameras or sensors.
Why can't it drive to unmapped places?
Why are they not promoting Google???
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Notice how, at about 3:01, the scene about bumper-to-bumper traffic, there is not another vehicle within 50 feet of Waymo?
Self driving cars-coming to your neighborhood in two years for the last 10 years and probably the next thirty.
I wish now I fucking hate driving
I don’t see the cars taxi smart in colorado
did somebody say "fact or fiction"?
"Is autonomous driving really possible today? Or did we drive you mad? I'm Jonathan Frakes."
So why is this legal but sleeping behind Tesla autopilot isnt?
Because Teslas aren't autonomous
Tesla has haters
Tesla is not fully autonomous
"Absolutely.,,,(puts traffic cone in front of it)...NOT!" 😟
But if every taxi in the world became autonomous, what do millions of uber or other drivers do for a living instead? I feel concerned since there's just so many whose lives entirely depend on the taxi business
Exactly. I'm an Uber driver for 10 years now. This gig economy has provided for my family consistently where a job would always leave me short from paycheck to paycheck. If this came to my city, over several hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers would increasingly be out of work. This company is only insensitively trying to replace hard workers who in intense traffic and bad weather, can out maneuver and flow through traffic. We are real and full control of the vehicle. If this vehicle malfunctions or misjudged for even a second, the passenger is totally vulnerable. Road blocks change and open and close, driving patterns for a few hundred cars on the highway changes from hour to hour. And yes, I am Uber black, a 4wd vehicle that I will use to help passengers in all types of severe weather, when even a taxi wouldn't. My city is a tourist city, people want to interact and find out suggestions for how to move around town, this car gives none of this. We keep talking about providing more jobs, but really rich people don't want to see poor people in their presence. Let us poor people just drown in debt. Make machines service only those who can afford it and allow the rest of us to drown instead of allowing us to earn our way. Sickening. Welcome to America.
What did the millions of taxi drivers do when Uber and Lyft took over?
@@tinabelt5977 Are you serious? Comparing a whole Autonomous vehicle with an app on your phone??
What happened to all the horse stables and all the cart mechanic? They got a new job.
So get a new job, world will not stop for you.
Is the data processing done onboard or is it done remotely via 5 G. If done remotely, what happens during a communications breakdown or even momentary interruption at the wrong instant? If done onboard, how does it coordinate with current driving conditions, ie traffic, accidents, road closures, emergency vehicles, etc.?
Cannot imagine it would be done remotely. Too much latency and too many reliability issues. It uses 5G no doubt to download extra mapping data. But as Waymo presentation outlines, high-res mapping data is used only as a historical reference, not as absolute truth - better to have some expectation of what is beyond the horizon than no expectation at all. But live data from sensors is always the more important source of truth.
On-board
Fallen Angel technology 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I can't wait untill we get a pod and that the steering wheel ends up in a museum.
Very very impressive however we can’t forget these vehicles are only mapped out to specific areas which they do very well in. Much different approach than say Tesla which is creating self driving in any environment with no restrictions or “mapping” required.
Coming to your city in 2035!
I mean it already works in some cities....today ....so that's neat
sounds like an AI voice
Who is the audience of this video?
Tesla drivers
Seriously, what an odd video
Investors and shareholders
Guess you didnt listen at all or?
Investors.
Hmm I won’t exactly say “elegant” sensors
Most people hate self driving AI ,maybe someone Will throw something to the car
*Gotta say don't care much for the design of it, its a bit like the little brother to the ECTO-1. Was there no other way to streamline the sensors into the car itself?*
Probably future versions will look better or if they ever design a car like this from scratch. Right now they've basically made a kit that straps on top an existing body. So it's going to be a bit ugly.
Later in the future itl all look sleeker and you won't be seeing a steering wheel
Uber killed the Taxi industry, Waymo killed the uber industry.
We have to open the doors manually? Ooh it is outdated 🗿
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