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I’m a big Waymo fan. Some of my thoughts;

Waymos are one of the first things that my visitors to SF want to try. It feels like living in a science-fiction future.

The ride and navigation feels very smooth - after the novelty of having no driver in the front seat wears off, you become accustomed to the experience surprisingly quickly. In comparison, I found the Cruise driving experience pretty uncomfortable and stress-inducing.

The app and software inside the vehicle is really well-designed. Which is unusual for a google consumer product!

And my female friends, in particular, far prefer Waymo to Uber or Lyft because they don’t have to engage with a creepy driver trying to hit on them.

I, for one, welcome our new self-driving overlords.



As I've mentioned on another thread, I just wish Waymo drove faster. They often don't keep up with the pace of traffic.


Maybe it is the traffic that is wrong? Vehicle-induced injury and death is still a huge issue, and marginal speed increases make no difference to overall trip times.


No thanks. I want self-driving cars to obey traffic laws. It's bad enough people are incompetent.


One of the best things about Waymo vs Uber and Lyft is that they drive smooth and comfortable, they aren’t zooming around between every stoplight and making me carsick.


Yeah I think you have to change the traffic laws for that to happen.

AFAIK, they strictly follow the speed limit, which feels too slow when everyone else is speeding.


IMHO we should start enforcing speed limits.


As they say, if you have to tell people to slow down, you designed your road wrong.




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