Waymo expands robotaxi service to all in San Francisco, drops waitlist

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  • Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
  • Robotaxi service Waymo on Tuesday announced its autonomous vehicles would be available for rides to anyone in San Francisco who downloads the company's app, dropping a waitlist that reached 300,000 names. Kevin Ko reports.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 38

  • @steven4315
    @steven4315 27 днів тому +3

    Love the guy who honked his horn at a car with no driver.

  • @theman-kq2uj
    @theman-kq2uj Місяць тому +3

    There goes the Lyft jobs

  • @waltertoki1
    @waltertoki1 27 днів тому +5

    I have taken a Waymo ride in the Sunset district. It was fine and I plan to take more since traffic and parking is difficult. Hopefully Waymo prices will be much cheaper than Uber or Lyft.

    • @mocast0974
      @mocast0974 22 дні тому +1

      Stop trying to make Waymo a thing, Gretchen. It's not going to happen.

    • @sammmmmysluggggger
      @sammmmmysluggggger 20 днів тому

      And the job losses?

    • @pcpll
      @pcpll 5 днів тому

      ​@@sammmmmyslugggggerjob losses? Lol. You need far more people to maintain one single robot taxi in 24/7 all weather working condition than one single person to drive an Uber.

    • @sammmmmysluggggger
      @sammmmmysluggggger 5 днів тому

      @@waltertoki1 And what will you say when artificial intelligence takes over your job?

    • @sammmmmysluggggger
      @sammmmmysluggggger 5 днів тому

      @@waltertoki1 Do you really think that once the tech bros have monopolized robo taxes that the price will go down?

  • @hollywoodambience
    @hollywoodambience Місяць тому

    I love it

  • @harryjones5260
    @harryjones5260 Місяць тому +1

    can't see them becoming a target for road rage in the cities. might even start a new thing 'pedestrian rage'

  • @nadagabri5783
    @nadagabri5783 Місяць тому +1

    You’re locked on … nice …. No thank you

  • @KingAlphaOmega
    @KingAlphaOmega 16 днів тому +1

    At least autonomous cars drives and follows traffic laws than pathetic drivers

  • @abelincoln9026
    @abelincoln9026 Місяць тому +2

    I like Waymo⚡️

  • @ncabcabin
    @ncabcabin Місяць тому

    Nice idea but I don’t think that will work in sf… sf don’t deserve that.

  • @1028Imgroot
    @1028Imgroot Місяць тому +1

    Wow? Again with this reckless driving putting autonomous car⁉️. Money talks and this is one of the many approved by people in charged 🙌🏼👌🏼💰💰💰💯

  • @dwj9099
    @dwj9099 Місяць тому +2

    Government needs to stay out of things.

    • @_____case
      @_____case 29 днів тому +1

      How does that relate to this video?

    • @mocast0974
      @mocast0974 22 дні тому

      @@_____case Mayor Gallego of PHX is bought and paid for by Google. She's even doing commercials for them on the local news.

  • @RantRantJoe
    @RantRantJoe Місяць тому +3

    Haha.. Tesla is a software company, and 💩one at that...

    • @thewatcher5822
      @thewatcher5822 Місяць тому +3

      Whatever you think of Tesla, they are set to dominate in this space.

    • @Dnizzle7
      @Dnizzle7 Місяць тому +2

      Waymo is Google's sister company. Tesla has nothing to do with this. Even if you think Google sucks as well, at least be right about about it.

    • @mocast0974
      @mocast0974 22 дні тому

      @@thewatcher5822 On a dwindling market. Everybody who wanted an electric car already got one. Everybody wants hybrids now.

    • @thewatcher5822
      @thewatcher5822 22 дні тому

      @@mocast0974 EV sales continue to grow, the best selling car last year was electric. China the biggest car market in the world is rapidly turning electric. Hybrid is a stop gap nothing more.

  • @TheLion415
    @TheLion415 28 днів тому +1

    Vehicles are going to be so unsanitary. I can smell and feel the germs from here

    • @mocast0974
      @mocast0974 22 дні тому +2

      Nothing is as bad as a Yellow Cab. Gross.

  • @joegug4751
    @joegug4751 Місяць тому +7

    That’s great, taking away jobs from hard working people so a few can be billionaires.

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 27 днів тому +2

      Bring back elevator operators? How about telephone operators? Time was when you wanted to call someone, you got the operator to connect the call. Automated switching sure cost a lot of jobs.

    • @sammmmmysluggggger
      @sammmmmysluggggger 20 днів тому

      @@steven4315 Just all the job money going to a small handful of tech bros...MORE ELIMINATION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS HUNDRES OF THOUSAND OF WORKS WILL NOT HAVE AN INCOME...AND YOU LIKE THAT?

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 20 днів тому

      @@sammmmmysluggggger Never said I like change. I don't really care for change but change happens. As a retired auto worker, I've witnessed and been affected by automation for 40 years. That said, can you live a middle class lifestyle as an uber driver?

    • @sammmmmysluggggger
      @sammmmmysluggggger 20 днів тому

      @@steven4315 Thanks for the perspective...standby for millions of job losses shortly with artificial intelligence...and we have NO PLAN on how to deal with this.

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 20 днів тому

      @@sammmmmysluggggger I've been hearing about the end of the world since 1st grade when we would practice going to the hallways for protection when the Russians nuked the nearby military base. In the 70's they told us we would face a cold hungry existence as we ran out of oil. Yet we're still here.