What happened was the reporter didn't learn how the service works before trying to do a piece on it. As far as I know, it's never done exact dropoff points unless you give explicit instructions to do so beforehand, because just telling it where you want to go isn't telling it where you want to be dropped off, according to their service. It's similar to a taxi, but closer to a humanless Uber or Lyft
Wow next time try walking it might be safer, I am glad it did not drop you off in another country . Thank you for the story , yes I am going to walk I don not care how far it is.
No. The car will think its being stolen and lock itself down and dial 911. If you do that on the freeway the car will completely stop in the middle of the freeway and then you would get rear ended and killed by a truck.
@@MrWolfSnack That sucks, feel like this should be an alternate way of maneuvering the car to the right path. Unlock it with some sorta passenger code or something
@@SigFigNewton true 👍 not sure we have waymo in my town but ive seen a ton of self driving cars in my area from all the different car brands that are testing them. Its crazy to think no one will be driving eventually. Maybe not until another 30 years will we probably see it normalized everywhere. Oh and flying cars lol
It reminds me of riding with my grandpa just before we had him committed. Well, in this case, it's the passenger that would be shouting the four letter words and not a 86yo man with dementia.
The reporter chose this route on purpose because she knew that Google maps will leave you there. I’ve had experiences with drivers in LA with Uber, where they went nowhere near where I dropped the pin
It picked you up in the wrong spot, dangerously stopped at a green light and tried to drop you off a 5 minute uphill walk from your destination (which was on a dead end street, perhaps that was the issue?) Why they license them to drive all over the city is ridiculous. Thanks for this report.
Ppl be stealing the cameras, sensors, other tech in no time. Stripped clean. All you need is an EMP or signal jammers & they do work like a charm. Doesn’t even need to military grade. A hammer to the cameras will do the trick too.
@@mvpfocus Arguably, its no different from Uber (just on a smaller scale) User driver didn't want to go down a busy street to a shopping mall entrance by road. And told parents to get out and walk 5 minutes up.... It was probably just an isolated incident, but just shows self driving cars aren't always to blame either. He was probably more concerned with "his time"
Such a great example of folks (poorly) trying to solve problems that don't exist while getting rid of jobs we used to think couldn't be out-sourced. It's like to tech people just hate drivers? First destroy the cab industry, then get rid of drivers entirely while making the experience for the customer worse. It's a shame we don't have people doing this kind of pointless crap working on real problems.
@@tailgatecarpenter26 If you need to stop, you can choose "pull over" on the app or the passenger screen. The vehicle will find the next safest place to pull over. While the vehicle is moving, it would be unsafe to open the doors.
@@jamesguizar3365 More like A BIG BUTTON to stop the car for you to GET OUT. This is about as useful as the batteries in Tesla cars when they go ON FIRE.
The second that car didn't know what to do on a green light I would be out of that thing. If it doesn't go on a green how do I know it's going to STOP on a RED?
Emphasis on probably. That car doesn’t have empathy it wont feel bad if it wipes out a line of children walking to school. Robots and AI are essentially sociopaths and the city is allowing them to operate dangerous 2000+ pound machines putting everyones lives at risk.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop where you want it to."
This is just another thing to get hacked and someone will drive you off the road. Trust me I work in tech. Never get in a self driving car if you value your life.
They already have. Someone found out how to hack into the car's CPU over bluetooth or wifi or whatever they use and drive it like an R/C car. It only worked if you were within 5-10 feet of the car though but it did work.
I always laugh when people are freaking out over this, yet are willing to get on the road with human crazies and road rage that is way more dangerous than the odd chance of some hacker taking over your random car. It will all be about the statistics. When self driving cars are proven to be x times more safe than humans it will be criminal to allow humans to drive a car. 1.9 million deaths each year to traffic accidents. That is just deaths, not including injuries and lives ruined from drunk, impatient, senile, distracted etc. drivers. This is the very early stage of the tech. In 20 years we will look back in shock that we ever allowed humans to drive.
I saw a near fatal situation happen on Fulton st at 4th ave (going East). As an elderly couple was crossing the street towards the park. They held their hands up to get Cars to stop and several of us stopped on the inside lane. And as they started to walk by our row with their hands up an Autonomous Car went flying by (outside lane by the Park) just missing them. They actually straightened up and gasped. I don’t think it broke the speed limit (30mph) but it definitely did not slow down as it was moving fast. So a heads up, if you think they see you.
На самом деле автономные машины должны работать вместе с дополнительным оборудованием, а это датчики движения, синхронизаторы и многое другое оборудование которое нужно устанавливать на каждом повороте, перекрёстке или пешеходном переходе а так же все машины на дороге должны иметь возможность общаться между собой и собирать данные об обстановке на дороге, тогда это получиться один большой синхронизированный механизм! В данный момент продукт Waymo ещё очень сырой для идеальной эксплуатации, но у них есть очень большой потенциал и они непременно буду заменять водителей, на это просто нужно время. В любом случаии машины значительно уменьшат аварийные случаи на дорогах, когда все это будет работать правильно.
I am ALL FOR turning S.F. into a bicycle friendly town instead. S.F. is being used as a ginny pig to test these things in. That should be the first question as to WHY THERE? I was there a few months back and I thought I was seeing things when I saw cars driving with no drivers at the wheel. I thought maybe I was hallucinating or maybe they were just small drivers I could not see, or just imagining things until a guy who was observing my confusion began to explain to me what was going on. NUTS!
There are hundreds of thousands killed by cars every year in the USA, and no one is really held liable when it's an accident. So the status quo will remain the same.
It would likely be whatever engineer that signed off that the vehicle was safe to put out on the road, at least if they follow the same logic as with other engineering fields. If a bridge fails within what should be reasonable conditions, whoever signed off on the bridge as safe is held accountable for the failure.
That hasn't happened with all the trips taken. Plus, they have employees and software that monitors them. Plus, you have a phone to call police and there is no serial killer in the car. You know, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy both picked up strangers. Waymo is waymo safer
And with a dead phone. Though presumably it would run out of battery charge at that point. Still doesn’t mean it would unlock the doors to let you out though… 🫣
I'm shocked that they have allowed these cars to be functioning freely like this even if it's under a test scenario because I don't think they are ready at all
Yes. Having a safety driver would make far more sense. But of course, that would cost more and lobbyists exist for a reason -- and it is NOT to better serve the voters.
And after the crash, or while you're drowning: "Thank you for choosing our taxi service! Have a nice day and hope to be of service to you again soon!" @@gabiausten8774
"5 minute walk after drop off" DEFEATS THE POINT OF A TAXI Also 10 mins tapping on a phone screen a real cabbie would have you at the location in less time and open the door and unload your luggage for you right there.
foff boomer, or should i say the stupid whiny tv journalist that believe the internet is another word for facebook. "open the door and unload your luggage for you right there" FING BS RIGHT THERE.
I drove several engineers for these vehicles pre-pandemic and after they told me I would be out of a job because of their self-driving cars. I politely said (which was experienced in this video) “If you use GPS, no I won’t. As it’s incorrect over 30% of the time”. “I have to call, go off of knowledge of the City or use Common Sense most of the time”. I would tell customers “I’m not following the GPS, it’s wrong” or they would tell me do not follow the GPS either (obviously, experiencing this before with the GPS). Also Airport rides (with luggage), people that need assistance, lost phones, wrong destinations or “can you pull all the way up, please” rides, will be a challenge. I told them a bus route would work best (exact stops). They had no comment after that, and now we are here, lol.
Yeah, I suspect these are going to be cheaper but clearly inferior for at least half a dozen years. Some people will choose them to save money like they did shared Ubers, but a lot will still want a human driver for luggage help and for a more seamless experience. And even when routing is perfect, the disabled, those with luggage, etc. will still probably want a human so it won't mean the end of drivers, just a reduction.
And really, even 20’ from the intended spot is a fail for many reasons. Raining, big hill, traffic, terrain, disability and more can make even being close, not close enough.
Not to mention concerts, sporting events and bar rushes where traffic rules pretty much go out the window. You sometimes have to shift into the opposing lane to go around taxis and Ubers waiting for pickups. There's a ton of situations that require a human to use common sense. Or the case where a light isn't working and there's a traffic cop manually directing the flow. They can't read random hand signals and waving. Or what happens when a passenger pukes in a vehicle, how would the car know it needs to be cleaned? Or what happens when renegades start causing trouble by shooting paintballs at the sensors? 🤔 Or what happens when a drunk passenger starts messing with the steering wheel, or hops in the drivers seat and starts hitting the gas and brakes?
If the tech billionaires (Tesla,Google, ...) want to make it driverless they will make it happen it's just a matter of time. According to Morse law technology grows exponentially.
I like this sort of technology, but it needs to be properly developed, tested, and vetted before being put on the road. This feels more like they rushed to get it out there so they could make money off it and are just trying to fix issues as they pop up as if they're patching a video game they released before it was finished. Except in this case, people's lives are at risk.
The Randall Museum is at the dead end of Museum Way. The Waymo vehicle did not drive down into Museum Way. Instead, it took a right turn on Lavant Street and left on State Street which is parallel to Museum Way.
waymo has been trying to get this thing to work for over a decade. I remember the CEO saying his kids will never have to learn to how to drive, and they were gonna turn 16 in 4 years. That was in 2014
They got it to work, you can use it yourself. "Our Waymo One ride-hailing service operates in Metro Phoenix, San Francisco, and is ramping up in Los Angeles County and Austin, Texas."
@@mayasf The Randall Museum is at the end of Museum Way. The road enters a 70-car parking lot in front of the museum. Perhaps you can book a Waymo ride to the Randall Museum and report your findings.
If she booked it wrong then others most likely will as well. My father in his 70's can't use text when I have seen other 70 year old great with technology. It varies, but if it is complicated then there should be a work around this. There has been a time where I searched for a Ubet ride using the train hoping I can cut down on the wait time ( I was really late for work and took the last half via car) Uber pinged my location on the the train which was a nile away. The driver was kind enough to pick me up from a different location. I don't see driverless cars doing that.
I know you're trying to make a joke, but...not everyone *can* walk five minutes. And if we're paying for a ride (presumably these rides won't always be free because they want to make money), shouldn't we be dropped off at our destination?
@@davidsherer52oh gee, again one of those America haters. Just so you know California is a cool place to live and guns are very hard to get here and gun laws are very strict here. It is not Texas or the south. Healthiest looking people are here in CA too cuz it's outdoorsy, warm and most people are into sports. California is the most beautiful place in the world, way better than Western Europe, UK or Australia where I lived. You should watch the fake news less and experience the world thru your own eyes more and travel.
I drive for Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. I've seen these things puttering around for a couple years now, they used to have 2 drivers in front seats🤷🏻♂️ and only recently did they go full driverless. Well anyway, i had my first ,(i want to say face to face, but it's not) we were both sitting at an intersection with standard green light(no dedicated left turn arrow) in such cases i usually allow the other driver to begin their turn first by flashing my high beams or giving them the"go ahead" hand signal. Not having any way to signal the autonomous car, we both sat there a minute until i initiated my turn at which point the other car begins to mirror me, i see him start to move (which made me uneasy) so i stopped so he stopped, i began to move again and so did he(very unnerving). Would i ever? Even for free? No thanks Waymo, I'll pass
@@COO415 Actually a lot of that is learned behavior which can be programmed. For example the guy who said he flashed the lights as a signal, well yeah, that's an unwritten signal but guess what, his parents taught him that or driving school taught him that. It's not an innate ability or nuance. It's just a signal they need to add to the software.
One year later... Many firmware updates later... We just used Waymo to get around The City. Worked flawlessly even in ugly San Francisco traffic. I bet in five years these things will be all over big cities.
Hey, here's an interesting shift for the Waymo business model. What if the self-driving capabilities are solely for getting the car to you. It is then up to you to drive the car yourself to your destination.
Just get a regular liscensed driver and make him earn the bread smh . This doesn't benefit society at all. Making these rich companies even richer. No benefit whatsoever
@@kojac40 by the same logic, elevators shouldn't be self-service anymore and instead there should be an elevator operator who is paid to push the button for you.
@@trixie9867 And yet she still earns a pretty good check... All fine and well until a digital letter doesn't turn in front of an audience when you need it to.
@@ASDFCH Except an elevator is limited to up/down, and can't take you "off-path", to a dead end street. A 1st grader can safely operate an elevator. Get a better example to support your logic...
@tmo7734 : They say they are ready... let them try... if they are not ready, they will "shoot themselves in the foot". The CPUC can then shut them down, using real examples as evidence. In the meantime, I feel safe on the other side of the planet, and UA-cam will provide me many Laugh-filled moments watching the fiasco from afar! 😜
@@hughdismuke4703 everything isn't a conspiracy involving money. There were lots of people who requested it. It lowers fatalities. These tests are bound to happen.
@varunkhare2134 I didn't report it as I should have. It was kinda later in the evening one night, while my supervisor and I were coming from eating. My phone had fallen from my bikes phone mount, so I turned around to get it, and as I was bending over from my bike to pick it up, here came these bright headlights coming at me. As I had just picked the phone up and tried to pull off, the car just plowed towards me, barely missing my entire bike with me on it but end hitting the back end of my bike, knocking me back down to the ground as the car just drives off into the night. Mind you, the car was nowhere in sight as I dropped the phone and turned around for it. It came out of nowhere and wouldn't slow down or gave two shits about me being in the middle of the road. That car was like MOOOVE BITCH GET OUT THE WAY, GET, GET OUT THE WAY!!🤦🏾♂️😂(LUDACRIS)
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If only these contraptions worked, we could throw thousands more people out of a job. And each one of these creates a traffic jam wherever it goes. What a shame!
Had a funny Autonomous Car situation happen the other day. Driving up Courtland (Bernal Heights) an A/C in front of me was trying to turn on the same street (Nevada?) but they were doing construction on it between Courland & Powhattan. So a worker with one of those Stop/Slow signs was trying to get the A/C to stop (by holding the sign in front of it). But it kept creeping closer towards him as he kept waving the Stop sign at it. He was getting mad and tapped the A/C but it kept creeping forward. So he looked at me and pointed (with the sign) to take the next street right then the A/C quickly tried to go around him and he jumped in front of it. I drove off laughing but when I came back about 10 minutes later on Powhattan I could see the A/C still there on Courtland, LMAO.
The construction worker should have grabbed a cone and put it on the hood. Perhaps in the future he'll have a cone clipped to his belt in case he has to get an A/C to stop
Yeah, they definitely need a better system with construction and temporarily blocked roads. I ride waymo pretty regularly in AZ and I've had similar experiences to this. One morning, a construction worker was using hand signals to tell the car to stop, it crept forward and went around him. Thankfully there was nothing dangerous ahead. More recently though, a road was blocked off with a do not enter sign and the car successfully made a 3pt turn and rerouted. There are just so many situations on the road and I feel like in a couple years this technology will have a better handle on things. I will say, I never feel unsafe in the waymo and with the sheer granularity of the mapping you see on the screen, the radar sees everything down to pedestrians on the sidewalk in detail and in real time.
What makes u choose waymo over uber/lyft/etc? is it cheaper? faster? does it actually lock u in and prevent u from getting out whenever u want?@@michael-c4t
I've seen and heard from people who used Waymo cars where it worked really well, but at the same time, we've all seen what happens when Waymo DOESN'T work. Not only can it be inconvenient, but it can also be really dangerous. I don't think this is ready for the road just yet unless more testing is done!
You're right. Unmanned self-driving cars are not ready for public streets yet. I just witnessed a Waymo car steer right into another car like it wasn't even there. The incident is going to be in my next video.
The problem with self driving cars is that private companies have limited budgets to succeed with. This means they need to have a working product within a certain time frame, or all will be lost. This is concerning, because it could mean that they cut corners or rush their service.
I used waymo my whole time we were in LA with no problems. It did drop us off maybe a block way from where I needed to be but it was like a 3-5 minute walk max and it gives you a google like map that guides you to your destination. I loved the whole experience.
@ryanedwards805 They should stop working on this tech because its doomed from the start. These taxi companies will be sued into oblivion every time one of their robots kills someone.
If there were only robo taxis on the street, it may actually work. But the fact is there isn't and only human drivers can make evasive moves that at the same time
Curious how much of this was user error. Seems like she indicated the application mentioned the 5 minute walk and the technician may have been trying to walk her through how to change it, but from the clip she seemed disinterested in supports instructions and was just frustrated and just said " I am just going to select it again and "Hope for the best".....". My hot take.
Are you kidding me... This is something I would ask of google maps and it gets me right to the street front even taking me into a name street in a carpark
The expectation of consumers is always going to be high, and people tend to complain more than try to understand the absurd difficulty in achieving complicated tasks, like driverless cars. Twenty years ago, this technology would have been considered a mission impossible. Frankly, I find that a great deal of progress has been made in this industry and that we are now at a point of mission very difficult. When very difficult problems (like this one) are responsibly developed to make them better, we get to a mission possible phase and hopefully to a point where they become safe, efficient and practical. Just about anything I can think of that humans have ever developed, have been a little rough at the beginning but gradually improved over time. I believe that this technology will be no exception. The ABC7 reporter mentions at the 4:00 point in this video, "...what if it had been a disabled person", "...on crutches or in a wheelchair...". I suppose that is a good argument, if you completely ignore the fact that driverless vehicles (used as taxis) are extremely early in the development cycle. My point being, it's easy to talk about the things that are not perfect, because it's an easy thing to do. I for one, have confidence in engineers, scientist and other very smart support people to gradually work out the problems we are now encountering with this and other technologies. Just like almost anything else that has ever been invented. An example being. the extraordinary, mind-blowing progress in the medical field. Considering just a few generations ago, we literally bled people to death trying to make them better, because medical care was a relatively undeveloped. Looking forward to the future is very enjoyable to me, my family and the people I regularly associate with. For me, technology is a part of that. Thank you for listening, Mark Nicholson Former, US Army - (1980's) EFMB, Combat Medical Specialist
You’re not sure?! 😂🤦♂️It didn’t take you to where you wanted to go and stopped in the middle of the road for no reason. What exactly are you not sure about? 😂😂😂
Yeah, it shouldn't be long before the passenger can speak to the car to give custom directions/turns or speak/enter into the app to tell it if it has the wrong pickup point & tag the correction. They could even have an override on the touch screen where it shows the planned route and the passenger can touch the screen to make changes to the planned route. This stuff shouldn't be hard to fix.
it would be a lot easier to fix if we just valued our fellow humans enough to be content with them driving the taxi, and that doesn't even speak to the fact that the humans can already do a better job
@@sweeeetteeeeth I understand your point, but there are two main reasons this won't solve the problem. First, the long term hope for AI driving is that they may become significantly safer than human drivers and cut traffic accidents to a small fraction of the annual 40,000ish deaths per year (valuing the human). Second, there are market forces at work that will likely make AI vehicles a more economic choice for both consumers and providers of driving services. The big question economically is whether or not there will be so many jobs replaced by AI in the coming decades that we will need to implement an Andrew Yang style universal income.
If we're going to allow people to ride in driverless taxicabs that they are not legally permitted to manually operate in the event of a malfunction; then we can't arrest someone for DUI for using autopilot alone in the car to get home safely after a night of partying. They can't have it both ways.
The route problem is certainly solvable - with either an app or a screen in the back where they provide a map with the suggested route(s) and customer has to confirm before the trip starts. Not driving when it's green causes a hazard and also road rage with others; that's an absurd problem that should not exist at this stage where such cars are on the streets.
I'm guessing the green issue was some kind of failsafe. Something was a bit off and therefore it decided to stop and wait for further instructions rather than risk a dangerous move. But I agree that this technology is not mature enough to be on public roads, at least not without a passive driver to take over when the car can't go any further.
Australian here. I was in Phoenix last week and used Waymo four times all with perfect outcomes. I felt very safe - probably safer than with a human driver. I love it. I wish we had it here in Canberra Australia.
Uber paid the news station to make this report, they chose this destination because they knew that even Uber doesn’t bring you to the front door, these cars usually work great
That’s because this is a paid segment by Uber to try to put the waymo cars out of business. They knew this destination would do that so they chose it on purpose because even Uber doesn’t bring you all the way there. I’ve had this experience and the driver was confused saying that this is where his map was bringing him which was nowhere near where I dropped the pin
They pull over to the curb as we are all required to do. My wife and I just got back from SF yesterday and saw one do exactly that. A fire truck was heading our direction from a block away and the Waymo pulled to the curb just from hearing the siren.
@@agildehausI don't think you watched the whole vid properly. The car did not arrive where it had to arrive and dropping someone off 5 mins away from the destination isn't cool. The lady did put the exact dropoff location into the app and the car failed. Watch the video !
This would be great if it worked, because on days you don’t want to drive it would be wonderful! I guess in time, but like with everything, if the power/internet goes nuts? Also, do they check the cars between passengers? What if someone upchucks before picking you up???
Not to mention that on Sunday after the pride parade 2 separate waymo I cars stopped in the middle of 2 separate intersections due to road closures blocking traffic for 20-30 minutes
Bet they said the same thing back then when the first set of steam/diesel engines where exploding. What about when home Pc first hit the market… everyone laughed at it.
that technology made life significantly better for everyone. this technology can only ever make life minutely better for average people, while actually making it worse for a lot of people and benefiting massive corporations@@BulletBoyGaming
@@BulletBoyGamingthere’s this thing called “diminishing returns” Yes tech have upended human lives in the last two centuries, cause what it actually did was giving people necessary benefits in general, not only the corporations behind. Driverless cars like these are not one of them. What benefit does it do really? Unless we’re just a lazy person who doesn’t want to drive. Would everything be more productive and efficieny with driverless cara?
"I'm sorry, Lyanne, I'm afraid I can't do that."
"The doors have been locked (permanently) for your own safety."
MEGAN 3 lmao
2024: A Metropolis Odyssey
@@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- Haha! Waymo, open the pod-bay doors, please...
Distopic future
We are now going to the reeducation center.
Just glad the driver had his seatbelt on
lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LOL yes and he's invisible too
@@tonychu2 John Cena driving Uber these days.
So technically she got a depressed Robocar trying to drive her to the graveyard.
Yo, this segment alone has set the industry back by 5 years. Brutal user experience.
What happened was the reporter didn't learn how the service works before trying to do a piece on it. As far as I know, it's never done exact dropoff points unless you give explicit instructions to do so beforehand, because just telling it where you want to go isn't telling it where you want to be dropped off, according to their service. It's similar to a taxi, but closer to a humanless Uber or Lyft
I thought she was saying "Random museum" the whole time until I saw the sign at the end haha
I thought the same.
LOL me too
Me too
The same here. It would be a perfect excuse for the robot car: this dangerous alley is a random museum, explore!
Same hahah
The fact that this is actually real and on streets is actually insane!
Why? So far behind where we should be.
@@JWDACEI honestly agree technology development slowed down from 2010 to now
@tubesurfer777-el8vlhave you seen the fast food robots 😂they gone wipeout a whole lot of jobs with robots.
@@brooklynluckytelevisionmov4384no more taxi drivers
Wow next time try walking it might be safer, I am glad it did not drop you off in another country . Thank you for the story , yes I am going to walk I don not care how far it is.
Are you allowed to jump in the driver seat and take over?
No. The car will think its being stolen and lock itself down and dial 911. If you do that on the freeway the car will completely stop in the middle of the freeway and then you would get rear ended and killed by a truck.
@@MrWolfSnackthat’s such a bizarre comment lol
@@MrWolfSnack 🤣
@@MrWolfSnack That sucks, feel like this should be an alternate way of maneuvering the car to the right path. Unlock it with some sorta passenger code or something
@@MrWolfSnackI like your style. We’d be friends IRL.
"Hey boss ill be late, my self driving uber took me hostage" 😂
@@SigFigNewton true 👍 not sure we have waymo in my town but ive seen a ton of self driving cars in my area from all the different car brands that are testing them. Its crazy to think no one will be driving eventually. Maybe not until another 30 years will we probably see it normalized everywhere. Oh and flying cars lol
Free the hostiges
Imagine if something happened to your credit card after you got in one of these things and it locks you in until you negotiate with your bank.
It reminds me of riding with my grandpa just before we had him committed. Well, in this case, it's the passenger that would be shouting the four letter words and not a 86yo man with dementia.
It must have thought you were one of those jailed J6 losers? 😂
These things are waymo dangerous than I thought.
😂😂
The reporter chose this route on purpose because she knew that Google maps will leave you there. I’ve had experiences with drivers in LA with Uber, where they went nowhere near where I dropped the pin
@@cherylmarie5477so why don't they fix it, if everyone knows there's a problem with the map?
lol.
It's the same for Tuk tuk drivers in Thailand. They will stop at a junction and tell you to walk a couple of blocks to your hotel.
It’s insane to trust a driverless car in traffic if it can’t even get your destination right
"The doors will remain locked for your safety" is no one scared by this?
yea thats terrifying
So techniclly she got a depressed Robocar trying to drive her to the graveyard.
A hacker can take her somewhere.
That sounds like a quote from i.Robot
Yes ... WTF?!? 😮
It picked you up in the wrong spot, dangerously stopped at a green light and tried to drop you off a 5 minute uphill walk from your destination (which was on a dead end street, perhaps that was the issue?) Why they license them to drive all over the city is ridiculous. Thanks for this report.
That’s the best way to charge you as much as possible. Lol
So basically a better experience than Uber nowadays. 🙂
This is likely the result of cut and paste code monkeys using gpt to code for them.
Ppl be stealing the cameras, sensors, other tech in no time. Stripped clean. All you need is an EMP or signal jammers & they do work like a charm. Doesn’t even need to military grade. A hammer to the cameras will do the trick too.
@@mvpfocus Arguably, its no different from Uber (just on a smaller scale)
User driver didn't want to go down a busy street to a shopping mall entrance by road. And told parents to get out and walk 5 minutes up.... It was probably just an isolated incident, but just shows self driving cars aren't always to blame either. He was probably more concerned with "his time"
Such a great example of folks (poorly) trying to solve problems that don't exist while getting rid of jobs we used to think couldn't be out-sourced. It's like to tech people just hate drivers? First destroy the cab industry, then get rid of drivers entirely while making the experience for the customer worse. It's a shame we don't have people doing this kind of pointless crap working on real problems.
What do you mean destroy the cab industry? It's doing better than ever, they even do food and grocery delivery now!
@@carlafuqua1685 But they're trying hard to kill the cab industry. (they = the Tech Bros that bought congress).
Mark my words. AI and all the new technology will one day destroy this planet. It’s coming; be ready.
WHY NOT STOP THIS AUTONOMOUS DRIVING THING FOR A WHILE AND JUST HAVE A DRIVER DRIVING TO TAKE OVER WHEN THINGS GO BAD.
I wouldn't have gotten in when the the car pulled up at the wrong location. That is a red flag right there. Anything after that is on you.
the company should have to pay for disrupting traffic and the like
That's what I was thinking
The doors are locked for the passenger safety, via the internet? Noooooooo
As if they haven’t learned from all these incidents with Lyft and Uber passengers
@@tailgatecarpenter26 If you need to stop, you can choose "pull over" on the app or the passenger screen. The vehicle will find the next safest place to pull over. While the vehicle is moving, it would be unsafe to open the doors.
What happens if it catches fire?
@@Dusty42096You're toast.
"Hey, passenger, I wan't to play a game. There is only one key to open the device. Haw haw haw."
Someone needs to make a horror movie based on this concept
Same people that won't ride in a Waymo will readily let the gov inject their body with whatever.
😮!
Monolith (2016)
I’m still traumatised by that west land film about a cowboy theme park with robots as characters 🙀
MEGAN 3?
There DEFINITELY needs to be a big button in the back seat, for customers to press to speak to operators.
There is
@@jamesguizar3365 Good. Glad I could help!
@@jamesguizar3365 More like A BIG BUTTON to stop the car for you to GET OUT.
This is about as useful as the batteries in Tesla cars when they go ON FIRE.
On the old waymos there used to be
or an eject button that throws u out the vehicle
The second that car didn't know what to do on a green light I would be out of that thing. If it doesn't go on a green how do I know it's going to STOP on a RED?
it's probably a lot more cautious, more likely to err on the side of stopping rather than going.
@@travisporco Obviously!
Probably??? Probably???? "It" is "cautious"? Why would you think "it'"s "cautious"?@@travisporco
Emphasis on probably
Emphasis on probably. That car doesn’t have empathy it wont feel bad if it wipes out a line of children walking to school. Robots and AI are essentially sociopaths and the city is allowing them to operate dangerous 2000+ pound machines putting everyones lives at risk.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop where you want it to."
That sounds like a drive with my wife
This is just another thing to get hacked and someone will drive you off the road. Trust me I work in tech. Never get in a self driving car if you value your life.
For reals
People were saying the same thing about elevators xD today if you saw someone driving elevator you would be supprised like "what are they doing here?"
They already have. Someone found out how to hack into the car's CPU over bluetooth or wifi or whatever they use and drive it like an R/C car. It only worked if you were within 5-10 feet of the car though but it did work.
@@Dethas1991 Elevators get stuck all the time. The difference is that other elevators are not driving all around you.
I always laugh when people are freaking out over this, yet are willing to get on the road with human crazies and road rage that is way more dangerous than the odd chance of some hacker taking over your random car. It will all be about the statistics. When self driving cars are proven to be x times more safe than humans it will be criminal to allow humans to drive a car. 1.9 million deaths each year to traffic accidents. That is just deaths, not including injuries and lives ruined from drunk, impatient, senile, distracted etc. drivers. This is the very early stage of the tech. In 20 years we will look back in shock that we ever allowed humans to drive.
kinda amusing how the self driving car is wearing its seatbelt haha
I noticed that as well. It’s probably to keep the boinging noise from going off.
If seatbelt was unlocked, it would alert support so that they know someone is doing something they are not supposed to be doing.
So technically she got a depressed Robocar trying to drive her to the graveyard.
probably a legal thing
Lmaoo
We are literally living in the period of Robots and driverless cars. This is absolutely mindblowing.
Well, once you understand how AI works, it's no longer that much of a mind-blowing thing
Yeah. Who knew it would be so crap?
I saw a near fatal situation happen on Fulton st at 4th ave (going East). As an elderly couple was crossing the street towards the park. They held their hands up to get Cars to stop and several of us stopped on the inside lane. And as they started to walk by our row with their hands up an Autonomous Car went flying by (outside lane by the Park) just missing them. They actually straightened up and gasped. I don’t think it broke the speed limit (30mph) but it definitely did not slow down as it was moving fast. So a heads up, if you think they see you.
На самом деле автономные машины должны работать вместе с дополнительным оборудованием, а это датчики движения, синхронизаторы и многое другое оборудование которое нужно устанавливать на каждом повороте, перекрёстке или пешеходном переходе а так же все машины на дороге должны иметь возможность общаться между собой и собирать данные об обстановке на дороге, тогда это получиться один большой синхронизированный механизм! В данный момент продукт Waymo ещё очень сырой для идеальной эксплуатации, но у них есть очень большой потенциал и они непременно буду заменять водителей, на это просто нужно время. В любом случаии машины значительно уменьшат аварийные случаи на дорогах, когда все это будет работать правильно.
I am ALL FOR turning S.F. into a bicycle friendly town instead. S.F. is being used as a ginny pig to test these things in. That should be the first question as to WHY THERE?
I was there a few months back and I thought I was seeing things when I saw cars driving with no drivers at the wheel. I thought maybe I was hallucinating or maybe they were just small drivers I could not see, or just imagining things until a guy who was observing my confusion began to explain to me what was going on. NUTS!
Those old people need an update on their camera sensors prob.
Well they should've used a crosswalk
@@koraegi we don't know if they were or weren't? But that's not the point.
So... who exactly is liable when these cars kill people? (it is certain that they will eventually kill someone)
A giant corporation that has already paid off the politicians to get these cars approved.
I've been asking this since day one. If the CEO was liable, they'd never be on the road.
There are hundreds of thousands killed by cars every year in the USA, and no one is really held liable when it's an accident. So the status quo will remain the same.
It would likely be whatever engineer that signed off that the vehicle was safe to put out on the road, at least if they follow the same logic as with other engineering fields. If a bridge fails within what should be reasonable conditions, whoever signed off on the bridge as safe is held accountable for the failure.
Your liable you got in it
Imagine you'd be caught in a loop with the doors locked for 3 days, without water.
That hasn't happened with all the trips taken. Plus, they have employees and software that monitors them. Plus, you have a phone to call police and there is no serial killer in the car.
You know, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy both picked up strangers. Waymo is waymo safer
And with a dead phone. Though presumably it would run out of battery charge at that point. Still doesn’t mean it would unlock the doors to let you out though… 🫣
Lmao
I'm shocked that they have allowed these cars to be functioning freely like this even if it's under a test scenario because I don't think they are ready at all
They are actually very impressive. They have driven millions if miles already very few incidents
The cars are fine. They’ve had millions of successful trips with very few fatalities and life-altering injuries.
Still better than a lot of actual drivers.
Yes. Having a safety driver would make far more sense. But of course, that would cost more and lobbyists exist for a reason -- and it is NOT to better serve the voters.
Objectively better drivers than most humans.
Jesus, I feel just as trapped as her by just watching this video! Imagine experiencing this in real life!
No thanks.
And the fact that the doors were locked as well. I can just imagine a health risk happening. Let’s hope to god there is no self driving ambulances.
It’s so scary, I mean I know we have to test the technology, but man, imagine it just drives u into a river or a car wreck with doors locked.
And after the crash, or while you're drowning: "Thank you for choosing our taxi service! Have a nice day and hope to be of service to you again soon!" @@gabiausten8774
Ive used Waymo One recently in LA and it's great, much better than her experience in this video
"5 minute walk after drop off"
DEFEATS THE POINT OF A TAXI
Also 10 mins tapping on a phone screen a real cabbie would have you at the location in less time and open the door and unload your luggage for you right there.
You have never used a taxi. I've called a taxi company and it never showed up after waiting 40 minutes.
@@MrWolfSnack I live in SF, which is one of the nicest places to live in the USA.
@@MrWolfSnack Calm down bro, most of the information you get from the Kremlin isn't real.
foff boomer, or should i say the stupid whiny tv journalist that believe the internet is another word for facebook. "open the door and unload your luggage for you right there" FING BS RIGHT THERE.
This is what some husbands feel like when their wife is driving.
I drove several engineers for these vehicles pre-pandemic and after they told me I would be out of a job because of their self-driving cars. I politely said (which was experienced in this video) “If you use GPS, no I won’t. As it’s incorrect over 30% of the time”. “I have to call, go off of knowledge of the City or use Common Sense most of the time”. I would tell customers “I’m not following the GPS, it’s wrong” or they would tell me do not follow the GPS either (obviously, experiencing this before with the GPS). Also Airport rides (with luggage), people that need assistance, lost phones, wrong destinations or “can you pull all the way up, please” rides, will be a challenge. I told them a bus route would work best (exact stops). They had no comment after that, and now we are here, lol.
Yeah, I suspect these are going to be cheaper but clearly inferior for at least half a dozen years. Some people will choose them to save money like they did shared Ubers, but a lot will still want a human driver for luggage help and for a more seamless experience. And even when routing is perfect, the disabled, those with luggage, etc. will still probably want a human so it won't mean the end of drivers, just a reduction.
And really, even 20’ from the intended spot is a fail for many reasons. Raining, big hill, traffic, terrain, disability and more can make even being close, not close enough.
Not to mention concerts, sporting events and bar rushes where traffic rules pretty much go out the window. You sometimes have to shift into the opposing lane to go around taxis and Ubers waiting for pickups. There's a ton of situations that require a human to use common sense. Or the case where a light isn't working and there's a traffic cop manually directing the flow. They can't read random hand signals and waving. Or what happens when a passenger pukes in a vehicle, how would the car know it needs to be cleaned? Or what happens when renegades start causing trouble by shooting paintballs at the sensors? 🤔 Or what happens when a drunk passenger starts messing with the steering wheel, or hops in the drivers seat and starts hitting the gas and brakes?
If the tech billionaires (Tesla,Google, ...) want to make it driverless they will make it happen it's just a matter of time. According to Morse law technology grows exponentially.
At least you tried? 🤷♀️
I like this sort of technology, but it needs to be properly developed, tested, and vetted before being put on the road. This feels more like they rushed to get it out there so they could make money off it and are just trying to fix issues as they pop up as if they're patching a video game they released before it was finished. Except in this case, people's lives are at risk.
The Randall Museum is at the dead end of Museum Way. The Waymo vehicle did not drive down into Museum Way. Instead, it took a right turn on Lavant Street and left on State Street which is parallel to Museum Way.
Maybe because it doesn't know how to do U-turns...
Exactly. That location is really difficult to get to if you don't know exactly how to get there.
@@ReneRivers Google Maps easily routes driving directions down Museum Way. But Waymo vehicles are not programmed to use that route.
@@bigbigdog Museum Way goes into a 70-car parking lot. There is no need to do a U-turn.
@@ReneRivers not difficult at all. The cars are programmed by people who don’t know how to drive.
waymo has been trying to get this thing to work for over a decade. I remember the CEO saying his kids will never have to learn to how to drive, and they were gonna turn 16 in 4 years. That was in 2014
I bet he's driving a Tesla 😂😂
That is most dumbest I ever heard from a CEO
His kids are homebound, can't go anywhere.
@@dianasalazar4488oh god, Tesla is a wonderful car and most Tesla drivers are better than you I bet
They got it to work, you can use it yourself.
"Our Waymo One ride-hailing service operates in Metro Phoenix, San Francisco, and is ramping up in Los Angeles County and Austin, Texas."
This is STUPID. The technology shouldn't even be allowed on the road.
Seems Waymo didn't map "Museum Way" as a street as it is basically, a very long driveway into Randall museum. And it won't go onto driveways.
It will and I have, even showed it in a recent video.
@@mayasf The Randall Museum is at the end of Museum Way. The road enters a 70-car parking lot in front of the museum.
Perhaps you can book a Waymo ride to the Randall Museum and report your findings.
If she booked it wrong then others most likely will as well. My father in his 70's can't use text when I have seen other 70 year old great with technology. It varies, but if it is complicated then there should be a work around this.
There has been a time where I searched for a Ubet ride using the train hoping I can cut down on the wait time ( I was really late for work and took the last half via car) Uber pinged my location on the the train which was a nile away. The driver was kind enough to pick me up from a different location. I don't see driverless cars doing that.
@@RaymondHng Two days after she posted this, @mayasf did book that ride to Randall Museum and get there just fine. Pretty cool.
Most driveways don’t have names on maps.
Maybe it knows that most Americans need at LEAST a 5 minute walk 😉😎
Out of all the comments , yours made me laugh...good one.
BAZING
I know you're trying to make a joke, but...not everyone *can* walk five minutes. And if we're paying for a ride (presumably these rides won't always be free because they want to make money), shouldn't we be dropped off at our destination?
@@ckildegaard agreed; and with more guns than people in America the idea of walking is taking a life and death chance
@@davidsherer52oh gee, again one of those America haters. Just so you know California is a cool place to live and guns are very hard to get here and gun laws are very strict here. It is not Texas or the south. Healthiest looking people are here in CA too cuz it's outdoorsy, warm and most people are into sports. California is the most beautiful place in the world, way better than Western Europe, UK or Australia where I lived. You should watch the fake news less and experience the world thru your own eyes more and travel.
I’d rather have a driver, this is not for me! 👎
I drive for Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. I've seen these things puttering around for a couple years now, they used to have 2 drivers in front seats🤷🏻♂️ and only recently did they go full driverless. Well anyway, i had my first ,(i want to say face to face, but it's not) we were both sitting at an intersection with standard green light(no dedicated left turn arrow) in such cases i usually allow the other driver to begin their turn first by flashing my high beams or giving them the"go ahead" hand signal. Not having any way to signal the autonomous car, we both sat there a minute until i initiated my turn at which point the other car begins to mirror me, i see him start to move (which made me uneasy) so i stopped so he stopped, i began to move again and so did he(very unnerving).
Would i ever? Even for free? No thanks Waymo, I'll pass
@@mvpfocusif they arrived a second or 2 before you do, then they have the right of way.
@@mvpfocus That's true, I didn't read the part about both having green lights
Human nuance, human nuance, human nuance - can NEVER be replaced by a machine no matter how advanced the chips are or how polished is the software 😊
@@COO415 Actually a lot of that is learned behavior which can be programmed. For example the guy who said he flashed the lights as a signal, well yeah, that's an unwritten signal but guess what, his parents taught him that or driving school taught him that. It's not an innate ability or nuance. It's just a signal they need to add to the software.
@@COO415 Totally agree with you. I will NEVER risk my life by allowing an autonomous vehicle to drive me.
Have enough problems with cell phones GPS, this is beyond insane.
Same
How soon it will be the norm...no one knows...but it definitely will be the future.
@@mikegrindstaff I'm still waiting for the flying cars we were told when I was a kid.
@@scrappy7571that’s almost inconceivable, with self driving cars it’s already a reality just needs to get better
@ran160 Flying cars would need to be automated for very many people to use them close together I think
One year later... Many firmware updates later... We just used Waymo to get around The City. Worked flawlessly even in ugly San Francisco traffic. I bet in five years these things will be all over big cities.
Hey, here's an interesting shift for the Waymo business model. What if the self-driving capabilities are solely for getting the car to you. It is then up to you to drive the car yourself to your destination.
Just get a regular liscensed driver and make him earn the bread smh . This doesn't benefit society at all. Making these rich companies even richer. No benefit whatsoever
@@kojac40 by the same logic, elevators shouldn't be self-service anymore and instead there should be an elevator operator who is paid to push the button for you.
@@ASDFCH vanna white was nice to have on wheel of fortune but she wasn't necessary after the letters were digital
@@trixie9867 And yet she still earns a pretty good check... All fine and well until a digital letter doesn't turn in front of an audience when you need it to.
@@ASDFCH Except an elevator is limited to up/down, and can't take you "off-path", to a dead end street. A 1st grader can safely operate an elevator. Get a better example to support your logic...
Why the CPUC approved these vehicles is absolutely insane.
Greased palms.
@tmo7734 : They say they are ready... let them try... if they are not ready, they will "shoot themselves in the foot". The CPUC can then shut them down, using real examples as evidence.
In the meantime, I feel safe on the other side of the planet, and UA-cam will provide me many Laugh-filled moments watching the fiasco from afar! 😜
With the right doughnation
It's called money. Someone is getting a big bag of money to approve this.
@@hughdismuke4703 everything isn't a conspiracy involving money. There were lots of people who requested it. It lowers fatalities. These tests are bound to happen.
I guess you could drink a lot of beer in there to stay calm while trapped inside
I got hit by one of these earlier this week riding my bike. Smh these are dangerous af and need to be removed asap.
Can you elaborate on what happened ? What wrong thing did it do that let you got hit to it ? Was it serious ? Did you report the incident ?
@varunkhare2134 I didn't report it as I should have. It was kinda later in the evening one night, while my supervisor and I were coming from eating. My phone had fallen from my bikes phone mount, so I turned around to get it, and as I was bending over from my bike to pick it up, here came these bright headlights coming at me. As I had just picked the phone up and tried to pull off, the car just plowed towards me, barely missing my entire bike with me on it but end hitting the back end of my bike, knocking me back down to the ground as the car just drives off into the night. Mind you, the car was nowhere in sight as I dropped the phone and turned around for it. It came out of nowhere and wouldn't slow down or gave two shits about me being in the middle of the road. That car was like MOOOVE BITCH GET OUT THE WAY, GET, GET OUT THE WAY!!🤦🏾♂️😂(LUDACRIS)
@@MadamPocketz Thank you for letting me know. Sounds scary and risky. Also like your sense of humor 😃
@MadamPocketz yep, because humans never have accidents
@@Redridge07who said that?
lol 🤣 "Our team is working to get you moving" - looks like somebody monitoring you from a control center. "Honey! press that reset route button.."
If the vehicle becomes confused...it waits to be told what to do by a "team member"
That part 😂😂😂
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If only these contraptions worked, we could throw thousands more people out of a job. And each one of these creates a traffic jam wherever it goes. What a shame!
Saw one video where the driverless car was blocking a fire truck running blue lights and sirens, refusing to move...
Had a funny Autonomous Car situation happen the other day. Driving up Courtland (Bernal Heights) an A/C in front of me was trying to turn on the same street (Nevada?) but they were doing construction on it between Courland & Powhattan. So a worker with one of those Stop/Slow signs was trying to get the A/C to stop (by holding the sign in front of it). But it kept creeping closer towards him as he kept waving the Stop sign at it. He was getting mad and tapped the A/C but it kept creeping forward. So he looked at me and pointed (with the sign) to take the next street right then the A/C quickly tried to go around him and he jumped in front of it. I drove off laughing but when I came back about 10 minutes later on Powhattan I could see the A/C still there on Courtland, LMAO.
The construction worker should have grabbed a cone and put it on the hood. Perhaps in the future he'll have a cone clipped to his belt in case he has to get an A/C to stop
Yeah, they definitely need a better system with construction and temporarily blocked roads. I ride waymo pretty regularly in AZ and I've had similar experiences to this. One morning, a construction worker was using hand signals to tell the car to stop, it crept forward and went around him. Thankfully there was nothing dangerous ahead. More recently though, a road was blocked off with a do not enter sign and the car successfully made a 3pt turn and rerouted. There are just so many situations on the road and I feel like in a couple years this technology will have a better handle on things. I will say, I never feel unsafe in the waymo and with the sheer granularity of the mapping you see on the screen, the radar sees everything down to pedestrians on the sidewalk in detail and in real time.
What makes u choose waymo over uber/lyft/etc? is it cheaper? faster? does it actually lock u in and prevent u from getting out whenever u want?@@michael-c4t
That’s freakin hilarious, I’m laughing while reading this 😂😂
Will taxi drivers be out of job now?
I've seen and heard from people who used Waymo cars where it worked really well, but at the same time, we've all seen what happens when Waymo DOESN'T work. Not only can it be inconvenient, but it can also be really dangerous. I don't think this is ready for the road just yet unless more testing is done!
You're right. Unmanned self-driving cars are not ready for public streets yet. I just witnessed a Waymo car steer right into another car like it wasn't even there. The incident is going to be in my next video.
@@ryanedwards805👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That was just one test amongst many to go. Today society sounds like 'are we there yet? 😂
It's still learning
Girlfriend, that car is TERRIFYING! I didn't hear anything past, "These doors are going to be lock once we get there."
They are using humans as test dummies
Irresponsible as hell. Keep this stuff in the movies.
The problem with self driving cars is that private companies have limited budgets to succeed with. This means they need to have a working product within a certain time frame, or all will be lost. This is concerning, because it could mean that they cut corners or rush their service.
I used waymo my whole time we were in LA with no problems. It did drop us off maybe a block way from where I needed to be but it was like a 3-5 minute walk max and it gives you a google like map that guides you to your destination. I loved the whole experience.
You have an abrasive personality.
😂😂😂😂 she gets annoyed too easily
You're in a Johnny Cab! 😂
Tesla haters will say "Waymo is so much better without a driver." Funny. This video is example 1.
You need to undo the drivers seatbelt and get out and walk. Let them figure out how to get it ;)
This is one of those technologies that has been 5 years out for the last 30 years.
@ryanedwards805 They should stop working on this tech because its doomed from the start. These taxi companies will be sued into oblivion every time one of their robots kills someone.
@@ryanedwards805exactly
It’s public facing now in multiple cities, bit beyond that stage now
The theives are waiting for this car 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Right hand turns work. You simply have to drive around the world once to arrive at your destination.
But the car didn't arrive at her destination.
@@gabrielleperson4794 One has to keep driving.
i don't know what's more wild: the self-driving car, or the journalist who's clearly high on something.
her voice is more annoying than the car
Boomer voice
If there were only robo taxis on the street, it may actually work. But the fact is there isn't and only human drivers can make evasive moves that at the same time
Curious how much of this was user error.
Seems like she indicated the application mentioned the 5 minute walk and the technician may have been trying to walk her through how to change it, but from the clip she seemed disinterested in supports instructions and was just frustrated and just said " I am just going to select it again and "Hope for the best".....". My hot take.
Are you kidding me... This is something I would ask of google maps and it gets me right to the street front even taking me into a name street in a carpark
I feel like this is just another example of a boomer not being able to use technology.
😂
You should show your selections on the app
There’s no substitute for the human rationale that can “override “(pardon the pun) mechanical and technological glitches.
self driving and driverless vehicles have been made illegal here in BC, Canada.
Basically, people who can't use simple map functions will be SOL 😂
she sounds like she would be a terrible uber passenger
5 mins walk downhill is an impossible task for a Californian
The expectation of consumers is always going to be high, and people tend to complain more than try to understand the absurd difficulty in achieving complicated tasks, like driverless cars.
Twenty years ago, this technology would have been considered a mission impossible. Frankly, I find that a great deal of progress has been made in this industry and that we are now at a point of mission very difficult. When very difficult problems (like this one) are responsibly developed to make them better, we get to a mission possible phase and hopefully to a point where they become safe, efficient and practical. Just about anything I can think of that humans have ever developed, have been a little rough at the beginning but gradually improved over time. I believe that this technology will be no exception.
The ABC7 reporter mentions at the 4:00 point in this video, "...what if it had been a disabled person", "...on crutches or in a wheelchair...". I suppose that is a good argument, if you completely ignore the fact that driverless vehicles (used as taxis) are extremely early in the development cycle. My point being, it's easy to talk about the things that are not perfect, because it's an easy thing to do.
I for one, have confidence in engineers, scientist and other very smart support people to gradually work out the problems we are now encountering with this and other technologies. Just like almost anything else that has ever been invented. An example being. the extraordinary, mind-blowing progress in the medical field. Considering just a few generations ago, we literally bled people to death trying to make them better, because medical care was a relatively undeveloped.
Looking forward to the future is very enjoyable to me, my family and the people I regularly associate with. For me, technology is a part of that.
Thank you for listening,
Mark Nicholson
Former, US Army - (1980's)
EFMB, Combat Medical Specialist
You’re not sure?! 😂🤦♂️It didn’t take you to where you wanted to go and stopped in the middle of the road for no reason. What exactly are you not sure about? 😂😂😂
Wicked, possibly go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong!
Yeah, it shouldn't be long before the passenger can speak to the car to give custom directions/turns or speak/enter into the app to tell it if it has the wrong pickup point & tag the correction. They could even have an override on the touch screen where it shows the planned route and the passenger can touch the screen to make changes to the planned route. This stuff shouldn't be hard to fix.
it would be a lot easier to fix if we just valued our fellow humans enough to be content with them driving the taxi, and that doesn't even speak to the fact that the humans can already do a better job
@@sweeeetteeeeth I understand your point, but there are two main reasons this won't solve the problem. First, the long term hope for AI driving is that they may become significantly safer than human drivers and cut traffic accidents to a small fraction of the annual 40,000ish deaths per year (valuing the human). Second, there are market forces at work that will likely make AI vehicles a more economic choice for both consumers and providers of driving services.
The big question economically is whether or not there will be so many jobs replaced by AI in the coming decades that we will need to implement an Andrew Yang style universal income.
@@sweeeetteeeethno humans are annoying no one smart wants to deal with ppl these days
Waymo: for those whose time is worthless
Only good part is the INVISIBLE DRIVER is very safety conscious driver with his SEAT BELT 🤣😂😆😄
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I'll never be on board with driverless vehicles.
And . . . .no one cares what you say
@@uy7munir then don't read the comments.
The car heard her talking crap about it.
If we're going to allow people to ride in driverless taxicabs that they are not legally permitted to manually operate in the event of a malfunction; then we can't arrest someone for DUI for using autopilot alone in the car to get home safely after a night of partying.
They can't have it both ways.
Not ready for prime time!
The route problem is certainly solvable - with either an app or a screen in the back where they provide a map with the suggested route(s) and customer has to confirm before the trip starts.
Not driving when it's green causes a hazard and also road rage with others; that's an absurd problem that should not exist at this stage where such cars are on the streets.
This BS will be a DISASTER.
@@ryanedwards805 obviously the car isn't going to rage.... he means the people stuck behind the stupid car parked at a green light.
I'm guessing the green issue was some kind of failsafe. Something was a bit off and therefore it decided to stop and wait for further instructions rather than risk a dangerous move. But I agree that this technology is not mature enough to be on public roads, at least not without a passive driver to take over when the car can't go any further.
@@dijikstra8 AI is already more intelligent than humans, self drive cars are the safest form of transport.
Some people can’t use a map in the way you describe. Actually a lot of people can’t.
How does waymo not get the criticism that musk fsd deservedly gets?
Australian here. I was in Phoenix last week and used Waymo four times all with perfect outcomes. I felt very safe - probably safer than with a human driver. I love it. I wish we had it here in Canberra Australia.
It's not only your country upside down, sonis your brain
Uber paid the news station to make this report, they chose this destination because they knew that even Uber doesn’t bring you to the front door, these cars usually work great
What a joke. These cars just should not be on the road. Totally unsafe and worthless.
It’s safer than my wife’s driving
😂😂😂
Just used it twice in San Francisco and it was spot on.
That’s because this is a paid segment by Uber to try to put the waymo cars out of business. They knew this destination would do that so they chose it on purpose because even Uber doesn’t bring you all the way there. I’ve had this experience and the driver was confused saying that this is where his map was bringing him which was nowhere near where I dropped the pin
So what about fire sirens or police sirens? Do they stop for that?
They pull over to the curb as we are all required to do. My wife and I just got back from SF yesterday and saw one do exactly that. A fire truck was heading our direction from a block away and the Waymo pulled to the curb just from hearing the siren.
@@SheDrawsThread What about the one that BLOCKED emergency vehicles??
@@SheDrawsThread I have seen a video where it blocked a fire truck running blue lights and sirens and refused to move out of the way....
This is the dumbest thing ever 😂
I make complete stops.
I felt sorry for the car when it pulled up at the wrong place. ! 🙄
It pulled up in the exact place it meant to. The lady needed to be paying attention to her app which would have told her exactly where to be.
@@agildehausI don't think you watched the whole vid properly. The car did not arrive where it had to arrive and dropping someone off 5 mins away from the destination isn't cool. The lady did put the exact dropoff location into the app and the car failed. Watch the video !
Why have a seat at the front of the wheel for no one?
Because the car needs to driveable by human in case AI fails and it has failed many times so obviously the seat is very much needed.
This would be great if it worked, because on days you don’t want to drive it would be wonderful! I guess in time, but like with everything, if the power/internet goes nuts? Also, do they check the cars between passengers? What if someone upchucks before picking you up???
I will never get inside of one these cars. Lol. Especially after watching this video 😂
I've rewatched the clip over and over again in which Jimmy Kimmel puts his grumpy aunt in a VeMo , her reactions are hilarious 😂
Yes there needs to be communication with "a driver" of some sort.
Eventually these will drive better than people.
@@mvpfocus
Facial recognition and gesture identification = already exists
Not to mention that on Sunday after the pride parade 2 separate waymo I cars stopped in the middle of 2 separate intersections due to road closures blocking traffic for 20-30 minutes
This is super frustrating. I am sure that if she chosen the right location on the map, she would not have this issue
How much more technology do we actually need?? This new idea of what life is becoming is insane
Bet they said the same thing back then when the first set of steam/diesel engines where exploding. What about when home Pc first hit the market… everyone laughed at it.
I love it
that technology made life significantly better for everyone. this technology can only ever make life minutely better for average people, while actually making it worse for a lot of people and benefiting massive corporations@@BulletBoyGaming
@@BulletBoyGamingthere’s this thing called “diminishing returns” Yes tech have upended human lives in the last two centuries, cause what it actually did was giving people necessary benefits in general, not only the corporations behind.
Driverless cars like these are not one of them. What benefit does it do really? Unless we’re just a lazy person who doesn’t want to drive. Would everything be more productive and efficieny with driverless cara?
This is in my opinion some of stupidest waste of research time... Just designate it as a hobby