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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Waymo is operating fully driverless robotaxis in Chandler, Ariz., and recently took a step toward offering the same to riders in San Francisco. It is a test that could provide a roadmap for Waymo’s expansion and help the Google sister company build a revenue-generating business. Photo: Karl Mollohan
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If you look out the window on any given road i’d say about 50% of drivers are using their phones. On the highway, at a pedestrian crosswalk, everywhere all the time. Self driving cars can’t come soon enough
50%? Haha. Probably 15%
there are 2 million people like me who physically cannot drive and millions of people who statisically should not drive 60% of new mexico got a ticket from the red light cam that shown how most of the country should probably be looked at the same when children try and use this as a excuse thats all after we ignore beer and these ignorant kids thinking there so perfect we call this sociopathic tendencies your the kind of kids who end up dying in races fact you dont realize how close you are to insanity humans are not only flawed there completely self motivated moronic cult members there is nothing in this world worth fighting and dying for outside freedom for all as a American my forefathers instilled that into me in pride of my country even now im a complete optimist about the future but its based on facts and still reality even at current pace as science slows down for no man and Taiwan doesnt change anything even if china did take it towards my end of points i wish our world would reaffirm peace and never let go we cannot let another 30000 year war stop us from a larger presence in space
That's okay ..
But who asked
That's why I sold my motorcycle
@@vika0194 probably about 75%
I see so many of these amazing vehicles in San Francisco. I feel safe driving next to them because I know they never speed or run lights.
But despite these Hi-Tech machines are the lost of many driver jobs, robotics A.I. stolen the job :(((
@@edmondcasenas2565 cool
How many driverless taxi's are there. 60? There is only one thing they must do. They are not supposed to kill anyone. That's all. Sorry Arcadia but your car is killing people. And will continue to kill people.
More loss of jobs
Taxi talk is fun
To much AI and automation isn't good
@@edmondcasenas2565 That is what Innovation is about. People "loosing" their job because of Innovation is a very important thing. If we would have stopped this process because of people loosing their jobs we would have no Internet, computers etc. today. People who loose their Job because of Innovation can give a new impact in other or new industries which transform humanity and living in general to a new and better stage.
elon musk/tesla fanboys are mad haha
My tesla drives better then this also is 10x smarter especially when it slows down and stops on green light and pisses off all the cars behind me.
Technology is great.
It’s always 3-5 years from no driver. It’s been like that forever.
Yes. I feel the same when a university develops a new kind of robot technology. They always say that it can be used for rescue work. But I've never seen it used in practice.
I work at a company and we already have contracts from house hold name companies for delivery good services and ride hailing. It is much closer than most realize.
I know. I really wish this companies success
I disagree. A few years back this was nowhere near the state it's in now. We are onto something. Replacing drivers in the first world will unlock untold amounts of human potential. This is a complicated problem and they are learning how to do it. I'm hopeful for this part of the future.
As you can see, evidently driverless already exists, it's over 4 years already since waymo first took the safety driver out. As for when it will reach your location... well, that's a different topic. Even when driverless reaches market maturity, it's not like the entire vehicle pool can be replaced overnight, even if a company decides to for example buy new lorries to replace old ones and their drivers, it's not like they are going to scrap perfectly working vehicles, they'll just sell them downstream to companies that don't have money to invest in driverless or to countries where driverless is not yet a reality for technical or political reasons.
Suprised that the Waymo crashing into Padestrian didn't make Big News! If that was Tesla, would major propaganda
It may be related to who owns Waymo
Because a driver was actually driving it which probably makes the case for driverless cars even bigger .
@@SashaMirpour They say a human was driving it. and conveniently the 3 accidents before it.
Being the victim of road rage is one thing you never have to worry about with driverless cars.
I can’t wait for driverless cars. We will save so many human lives since 90+% of drivers are terrible and distracted.
I agree. I think in aggregate, it'll decrease a lot of accidents. It'll allow for people to actually refresh and do something else during their commute!
do they drive save?
You do bad i guess, lol
98%
@@everythingisfine9988 I was trying to be nice ; )
It’s probably 99%
@@MAchannel2024 I know... But my fingers just took haha
How come Waymo hasn't talked about their winter weather testing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced a few years ago?
Probably because LIDAR is completely blinded by rain and fog.
@@beyondfossil The point, Waymo said back then, was to work on sensors that can operate in winter, like LIDAR with certain frequencies of non visible EMF that can go through water.
My guess is because the testing isn’t completed or isn’t showing promising results and they don’t want to pull an Elizabeth Holmes by making false claims.l of their technology being ready before it is.
@@leibun Except Waymo has never been shy before, and still isn't, about giving us updates about their progress in more benign climates like Phoenix even in the middle of testing before things have been fully evaluated.
Because they are far behind Tesla.
Waymo? Corporate poster child that's never going to happen. FUD
Are they testing in ice and snow too? It takes alot more to maeuvre on ice for 6+ months of the year. Longer stopping time required, more space, etc. Hopefully they are testing in northern cities too. I'd love to see how that is going.
It don't snow in San Francisco or Phoenix. But good point. I think AI would be far better in snow than people from California. One inch of snow shuts the whole thing down. I'd say Waymo is best equipped to handle snow and fog being that it uses lidar and radar.
It's snowing in Hawaii and Texas these daya, so you never know, San Francisco could be next. God forbid . Imagine those hills with ice and snow on them? Yikes. 😉
The reason Chandler Arizona was first for Waymo is because they average 4" of rain a year and no snow or ice there. LIDAR has significant issues dealing with rain or snow. There is a RUclips videos posted recently if a Tesla driving itself on a dirt road covered in snow, and it does not go perfectly, but then it is still a work in progress for them. At least the Tesla autonomous tech shows potential for doing it in perfectly in the not too distant future, and no one else has any cars trying it that they have made public.
I doubt it performs well in these conditions. Understanding how this technology works, that is why it operates in cities where the weather is good most of the time.
6+ months of the year with ice on the ground? I don't think Alert, NT is a target market for Waymo.
When I can watch TV on a big screen while driving and not get pulled over.
That's when I want a self driving car
Test it at Vietnam 🇻🇳, ( the traffic there is extremely chaotic), you can collect tons of data therr
Makes you wonder if 20-30 years from now they will be talking about banning drivers of manual cars (cars that require the owner to drive). 10 years ago when EVs were starting to be introduced (yes im skipping the useless ones from the 2000s) it was in a similar fashion and now we are trying to ban all gas cars altogether in 10 more years. Hopefully they will allow us enthusiast to drive our fun gas car every once in a while in the future (maybe a couple percent of the population)
I expect it to at least be much harder to get your license in the future. It is far easier to get a license in American than in many other countries, like Canada and the UK.
that;s coming soon, not 20-30 years. may be in 10 years or so.
You will only be able to drive your sports car at a track. I don't want potentially distracted drivers around me when I am in my self-driving pod.
not even once
Lol "will people decide to use it?" When a ride in those taxis cost $1.99 and a regular driver $20 I can promise you everybody would use this, most of those cars would be electric with no oil changes million mile powertrain.
Good video. But the footage for the Arizona Waymo demonstration should have included the driverless vehicle pulling up, stopping at the curb, and the passenger(s) getting in. Its a thrill watching a "ghost" car drive up to you. It would have shown the actual experience more vividly and how it would really be experienced by the customer.
There were probably still some restrictions on what they could show.
@@frosttaco3540 true, those are usually bloggers or tiktoks from what I've seen rather than wsj. That being said, ur right, idk why they wouldn't show that
I need this since I can't drive because I have trauma in road, please come to Malaysia waymo
Tesla is far ahead of waymo and working with Google to try and stop Tesla.
I think having them driving on a set route / loop like bus routes is a great idea! That way locals can get used to driving around them and they can start collecting data. The trust needs to be slowly gained
So like a train? Or subway
@@TheGogetassj no because they can change routes dynamically and can stop MUCH faster.
Having an AI-driven car use the same route over and over again defeats the purpose of deep learning. These vehicles need to adapt to any new route/kind of road/street/hw and learn from unexpected situations and some day make the transition to driving in other countries with different traffic rules.
Self driving bus is good and may come sooner than private vehicles. However they are not really cost efficient. For car, machine replaces 10 drivers to carry 10 people. But for bus, machine replaces just 1 driver to carry 10 people
God those google self driving cars still look so terrible
Good bye humans lol
THIS FREAKS ME OUT BUT IT'S NOTHING COMPARES TO AN AIRPLANES USING THE SAME TECH TOO CALLED ( AUTO PILOT) HOPEFULLY WE WILL ALL GET USED TO IT EVENTUALLY....😍👌
This is a good way to make people jobless
The best thing about a driverless taxi is that you don't have to leave a tip!
Couldn't a miscreant just jump infront of the vehicle over an intersection (causing it to stop) and poke its headlights out? Given that this is a $100,000 vehicle at the cheapest? Just asking.
Except it would all be on video, just like for Teslas. In the not-too-distant future, I'd feel safer jumping in front of a self-driving car than one with a human driver. Teslas already even take active accident avoidance steps for cars arriving from behind.
@@lsauve It doesn’t matter if it’s on video. They have masks and hoodies on. Modern criminals don’t care about cameras at all.
@@truthteller4442 Okay, and nothing would stop them from doing the exact same scenario to a human driver...
@@noelbaudy5371 A human driver would have the sense of running the thief over. It is difficult to train a machine regarding which humans it's supposed to run over and which ones it's not. The point is, any unattended autonomous machine, whose prime responsibility is not hurting people, is not built for this world. I could just jump infront of one, push a piston jack under the back axle, and then take all the tires for a nice profit. This would be my billion dollar startup idea 😎.
Besides them being filmed in HD by a dozen different censors, what's stopping a criminal from breaking into anybody's car that's unoccupied?
Ummm, nah... im good . Thanks
They took all the jags😂🤣
OOPS IT WON'T WORK IN INDIAN ROADS....IS NT IT?
I saw these cabs In person at a charging station
i will never trust these
WSJ, really? This passes for journalism?
the moment uber removes the drivers. that's the moment they'll have one of the best if not the best business structure ever made.
This is closer than you think 😏
Uber's problem is that in the autonomous age it has nothing special to differentiate it from anyone else. Uber is a dead company long-term.
@@kevinkent6351 It has the market. If they can adopt or partner with autonomous companies then they will thrive, if not. They will die, I agree.
@@Dannydrinkbottom Uber, Lyft, etc. have no defensible market position in autonomous vehicles. Uber, et al's value proposition is the fact that they have a lot of cars, which means in most major markets they can pick you up within a few minutes. If you started a ride-sharing company or a Facebook rival today, you'd not be able to compete with Uber or Facebook, respectively, because of network effects. But when ride-sharing eventually goes autonomous, whichever company has the most vehicles is going to win, with maybe some niche companies offering a higher-end or different service.
@@Dannydrinkbottom They have the market as long as they keep pouring investors money down a black hole, the moment they try to get any sort of profit out of that market position a competitor will pop up and take that market position away from them. The barrier of entry to that business is trivially low, just launch an app, it's cheap.
One day no more monkey driver. This is where the Auto driving will boost since all vehicle able to communicate and the speed will be much faster since all are Ai.
Even if computers can reduce 90% of the accidents, the 10% people that got killed by a computer will sue.
Never looked at the lives it safe, only when something bad happens. That’s how our media works.
@@mk3mo578 Sadly, only bad news draw eyeballs.
If we get accidents when the vehicle sticks to the rules that's just unfortunate. If we can reduce accidents by replacing human drivers, we are truly onto something.
Dead people don't sue anyone.
@@aleksandersuur9475 There loved ones do
Looks like Waymo will be soon making a deal with Elon Musk for Internet service.
Driverless cars will struggle in Africa. The infrastructure does not exist. There are too many obstacles on roads, i think the AI will get confused
if passengers have signed non disclosure agreement then why wsj advertising how safe and efficient are these self driven cars?
I know it's a Waymo piece, but it would be cool to get your take on the self driving landscape and rush to market. I think the most fascinating approach to the market is Tesla's given their FSD user count, state of autonomous tech, and owner/Uber-model. When fully in the thick of it, we'll have a Uber vs Lyft pt. 2 w/ Tesla + Waymo.
Tesla is not self-driving. It is lane assist and uses its customers as guinea pigs. It is a sad approach from a sad man who claims to be the founder of the company even though he came in way later as an investor.
@@AtillatheFun I'm talking technology. Not rhetoric.
@@jordanleopold93 In terms of rhetoric I was trying to do an appeal to logos and pathos at the same time. Let’s get real here, Tesla autopilot is lane assist and GM has the same with supercruise. This is due to Tesla refusing to accept that only using cameras and not pre-mapping areas is a bad idea. Also where are the Tesla taxis that we were promised in 2018? Where is full self driving that we were told would be here by now? “Car guys” agree that Teslas are unsafe in many ways and Waymo is trying to actually change that. In the early days Tesla was using its customers as unsafe test subjects while Waymo was using actual engineers who sat behind the wheel and examined every aspect.
I personally think it comes down to regulations, and making sure we start by doing autonomous only streets in cities specifically in areas close to the beaches where there are usually allot of bike lanes in the area,
Than implement them into busier areas, than start adding autonomous rideshare for business hubs and shopping districts, than moving them to the suburbs
@@AtillatheFun You're confusing Autopilot (which is a great "lane keep assist/active cruise control" system, maybe not the best, but definitely up there), with FSD Beta, a completely different system Tesla is developing. Here's an example of a drive with FSD Beta in control the entire time:
ruclips.net/video/pOMnRG5-E0k/видео.html
Watch that and tell me again, with a straight face, that it's not an autonomous car.
Not sure how this can be operationally profitable. How many rides should a car deliver to payback the 200k investment?
How can this be more profitable for companies than status quo, where their only cost is marketing and software development?
important UPDATE: passengers can select their location and distination by smart phone application so one taxi can pick up more than one passenger on the same line , this will reduce traffic jam.
*I GRADUALLY FEEL LIKE THAT I AM A FOREIGNER ON OUR PLANET*
Cambodia highway roads need many many many many many many polices robots cars taxis and modern internet cars taxis tall buildings along Cambodia highway roads
a road with no driver would be best for this. Speed will increase and safer.
Don't worry Elon Musk has got this.
They're ahead of Tesla in self driving tech
@@Nishith8 don't tell the musk fans that 🙈
time will tell, let tesla prove people wrong again lol
Tech is a double edge sword, its safe, free from human mistakes , its going to take away thousands of jobs, drivers r on notice , like phone operators , receptionists , cashiers , banking , drivers will b replaced , slowly but surely , A I will take ovr .
Try this in Africa, and all external sensors will be missing in a day.
But they can have sensors & cameras enclosed in high voltage cases instead.
Jarod?! Hello, Jarod?? This is like the perfect lead to a Silicon Valley episode: ruclips.net/video/-trd_f6j3eI/видео.html
Why is it 3 years ago nobody was in the driver's seat this video says it's 11 months ago and now they're putting people in the driver's seat??? What happened people will always be better than the technology when it comes to driving it will be a very long time before they Master it I'm a truck driver I drive every single day sensors and cameras can never make the right decision faster and better than a human natural reaction to save somebody's life
If you want someone disappeared, this maybe the way to do it by government, corporations, and wealthy individuals.
i'm no expert but given the way they are developing this tech, they will go bsnkrupt as any other company who tried with this dumb method. imo of course
Nice video.
If I tell you Chinese tech Company baidu Get a similar even better technology Before this one . Is there somebody will say chinese are copycats ?
2:28 so in other words, keeping accidents and fatalities quiet.
In future people will be more lonely and more depressed
Chandler, Arizona has great roads compare to Nashville is awful..
they always say theyre working with local authorities when they mess up.
O look, i drowe those cars in plant they were built .Magna Austria.. we were geting them ready for the trip to the Usa.
Zzzzz, wake me when I can stumble in after three martinis in Miami Beach, say "take me home" , and when I wake up 1300 miles later in Texas I am home safely 100% of the time. Until that day, I'll drive...
A non-stop autonomous car has been developed.
The way the U.S. is going the thugs are going to start dismantling this cars in no time, some will get caught, and will be released the same day with a " we are so sorry, we detained you..." note.
Still Tesla Vision/ FSD BETA is way better than Waymo ..
another journalistic fluff piece ... no mention that they need detail map of the area before they operate taxi in that area. Put these taxi in a city that is not mapped in advance and taxi will drive in first pole it comes across.
Sorry, I love technology, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I want a person operating any car I'm in. Here's a few. The car in front of you stalls just as your crossing railroad tracks. The cross arms come down indicating a train is coming, but your still on the track. Does a driverless car understand the situation? Does it know to get you off the track even if it means pushing the car in front of you out of the way? What about a bridge collapse? Does the driverless car recognize when the road is gone and stop or does it just keep going? Does it understand not to drive through high water? Does it know how to handle icy conditions? Does it recognize a tornado coming and know how to escape? What about an angry mob of protestors up a head who are pulling people out of cars and beating them half to death? Does it know to do whatever it needs to do to escape this mob? What about an out of control car racing towards an intersection? Does it know to stop even though it has the right of way? What if armed men jump out of the car in front and run up and starts beating on the window? Will the car know to try and escape to safety or just sit there? There are so many situations that come up which require quick intelligent reactions that I don't believe a computer is capable of handling. Does in know not to take a route through a raging forest fire? Does it recognize things like a rock or land slide heading towards the road you are about to pass? Things that a person would know to stop for. Auto pilot is a great thing for planes which have none of these issues. But I think its a really bad idea in cars. I'll never get in one.
Most of those things are non issues in Phoenix where I ride with Waymo on a regular basis. I find them much safer than human drivers. As for the angry mob of protestors, a Waymo door can't be opened from the outside without the app. I don't think anyone would want to attack a vehicle with that many cameras and sensors on it recording their actions.
Self driving cars should be able to be owned by people with disability or seniors as a source of income.
3:04 I hope the camera footage inside the car was given to the police to confirm it really was driver error. And if there isn't none, but like $10,000 worth of tech all over the car, ha lol okay so there OBVIOUSLY probably like 5 or 10 cameras inside the car. No way on earth I'd could get away leaving a bomb in one or even install my own camera to spy on passengers, without getting caught.
Rise of the beta males, if you look at the men featured in this video and in tech in general
Yup. All a bunch of Nancy boys.
200000$，noway，what if FSD of Tesla only 12K can also do this.
What’s the point of having a driverless taxi with a driver behind the wheel???
Reporter = cute thanks for coming to my TED-talk
Why are alot of people saying that self driving is not there yet and you still have to baby sit the car? And there is literally no one driving
Yea let's roll this out to places that snows.
Not much of a race. Waymo is basically by themselves in actually making something that works.
But aren't they actually losing money?
No, they aren't. That's crazy. There are a ton of companies out there testing far better automomous products than Waymo.
Outside the US, and especially in China, there are countries that are very advanced in developing autonomous cars.
@@kutter_ttl6786 can you name someone?
That's laughable as they can't go anywhere outside of a small geomap that's continuously updated, and they basically run several loops even then ..they can't run unprotected left turns...Tesla FSD Beta already perfected the Waymo geomapped areas with just cameras and no geomap to perfection in shorter time
They ought to make the bodies of these cars out of nerf foam. You know, just in case.
theyre using jaguars as taxis ??? big money bruh big money
Please let me know how LiDAR works in rain ,snow and fog, OK
Lol, they are nowhere near to FSD
Elon Musk's watched this video.
The narrators voice sounds like the jonny cab robot from total recall
Geedy company's want take the human out and save ...lol
when will they make a profit?
Ride sharing, goods delivery services. Think company to company services as well.
ALTHOUGH BAIDU #BIDU CAME OUT FIRST WITH ROBO TAXI
I will never get in self drive car
I am in one for 6+ hours a day, 5 days a week. When you realize the most dangerous thing on the road are other ppl, you may have a change of heart.
@@mystercraig I like to drive thanks
No one company can afford these cars except Google.
Guess what happens when it rains? Lidar doesn't work.
Try New York City. I can tell you this growing up here in NYC, your technology is nowhere near ready for this jungle.
Waymo is actually in NYC now, early testing.
@@TheDiplomat27 watch out for the crazy delivery drivers on electric scooters that don't follow road rules at all. Good luck.
@Zaydan Naufal good point, I can go on and on how NYC is the worst place for self drivign cars.
As someone who operates AVs in a dense urban environment with multiple actors, non compliant actors, bicyclist/scooter/vespa etc and peds (not as bad as NYC granted, but definitely more challenging that a suburb), you would be surprised. Rather unfounded cynical approach in ur comment.
No autonomous car service needs to be able to drive in NYC. NYC's left-wing bureaucracy and taxi lobby will make it the last place in North America to allow a fully functioning driverless service.
Alot of money for a taxi service . How is this going to turn a profit .
1:28
Wow. A decade... that's slow moving innovation for tech.
It's as complicated a problem as it can be.
@@unlink1649 its only complicated because they can't make it work
@@rblxplaysmochax6808 No one has been able to make it work.
Then there is Tesla that thinks Lidar is useless and won't scale
As if the worlds population is 64 million…
Is the machine learning local patterns or is it learning to learn? To me all "self driving cars" are just learning patterns not learning to learn. You feed the machine 1 billion patterns it can probably execute well for a while but when it faces uncertainty (aggressive people, drunk drivers, high drivers, phone obsessed drivers, quick unforeseen weather) can it preform?
Answer is yes! The thing with learning is that give it enough information on a variety on situations (even situations that are basically the same but with minor changes in places), it can start to figure out the best way to respond to such scenarios. It's like how us humans need reinforcement of ideas in order to apply what we learned to the real world. The AI does the same here. Waymo even takes its own accidents (almost all of it is not their fault) and inputs it into the AI so it can learn even better.
I highly recommend you look at the videos where it serves as a Taxi service in Phoenix! You'll be surprised just how skilled it is in navigating the roads and some of the more rarer instances of situations it hasn't or barely encountered (that are again, fed into the AI).
if usa elections are rigged what would be the fate of the car
Say no to robotics and focus on getting us a dam bullet train.
These cars are fugly.
They can't come to California
Can the car just self-drive to me then let me drive it?
So does this vechile pull over when emergency vechile or behind it? Possibly pull over for police as well ? An apparently your state doesn't care if there is a person behind the wheel ? Because on utube there or examples of people being pulled over for sleeping behind the wheel?
None of these cars are public for personal use so the only videos out there, I would imagine, are those in Teslas, which are level 2 autonomy, which makes not having ur hands actively by the wheel illegal.
Hope these can handle extremes of snow or rain.
They can. I work at a company and it is shocking what it can deal with. Ride quality still needs adjusting because most ppl don't abide by street laws which cause the cars logic to have to adapt, but it is impressive to say the least.
Johnny cab is becoming a reality
Are they still wearing masks in the US ?
I’d rather trust a computer than most idiots on the road.