Waymo Gets Green Light For Airport Service in San Francisco (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/1856253/waymo-gets-green-light-for-airport-service-in-san-francisco
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/779039/waymo-sfo-airport-permit-robotaxi
> After years of back-and-forth negotiations, Waymo signed "Testing and Operations Pilot Permit" with SFO, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said in a release. Under the agreement, Waymo will roll out its service to SFO in three phases, including testing vehicles with a human driver, testing without a driver, and eventually beginning commercial service.
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> Waymo will start its tests with employees before eventually inviting members of the public to take trips to and from the airport. Pickups and dropoffs will initially take place at SFO's Kiss & Fly lot, which is accessible to the terminals via the AirTrain.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/779039/waymo-sfo-airport-permit-robotaxi
Waymo pickup from tricky location? (Score:2)
I always have trouble with rideshare pickups from my apartment. I can plant an X where I want to be picked up but then this gets translated to an address on a neighbouring street that is not in my complex. I always have to send a clarifying message to the driver. This is challenging because I can't send it until the driver is assigned, which is when I'm rushing around trying to be ready in time. It would seem that Waymo might skip the step of converting to a human readable address. That might help. Bu
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The app doesn't let you put your specific address in there?
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I can enter the address of the complex but that isn't very useful as it is a rather large complex. The app doesn't know what to do with apartment numbers. I had a similar problem at a prior residence in a town home development. The interior streets didn't have names. The street I was on could be thought of an extension of a nearby named road and apps often translated my location to such an address. Unfortunately, routing to such an address would require driving through a wall.
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In my Waymo trips yeah I've had to game the system a little to get it closer to where I actually am. It feels like it has some baked in behavior to where it chooses to stop for pickup and dropoff, either for efficiency or traffic or something but to me it feels intentional.
I basically kept plugging on nearby areas with the pin and looked at where it was trying to stop. Some spots I could never get it stop closer than a block, easily the weakest area of the service. This was all around metro SF so other c
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> I always have trouble with rideshare pickups from my apartment. I can plant an X where I want to be picked up but then this gets translated to an address on a neighbouring street that is not in my complex. I always have to send a clarifying message to the driver. This is challenging because I can't send it until the driver is assigned, which is when I'm rushing around trying to be ready in time. It would seem that Waymo might skip the step of converting to a human readable address. That might help. But if, it doesn't, texting the robot driving the car doesn't seem to be an option. Has anyone here tried to get a Waymo pickup from a similar tricky location?
It probably helps to use a ridesharing platform that doesn't use multiple map providers. If all your map data is from one source, you don't have these problems. It's when you start to mix multiple map providers that things go horribly and irreparably wrong, because the workarounds for one platform don't work on a different platform. Given that we're talking about Waymo, I assume Google Maps is used for everything, so I wouldn't expect those issues to occur. But no way to know without trying it at your s
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If its tricky because of specifying the location its probably going to work, you can set a pin to your desired pickup location. If its tricky because of the area Waymo will currently do worse because it generally isn't going to do the stuff a human is going to get away with like double parking, blocking a hydrant etc. Teaching a robot to follow the rules is easy because robots really want rules to follow. If you follow all the rules in a complex traffic environment, its likely you won't do so well, other
Tesla (Score:2)
Tesla needs an answer to this, to keep their stock fraud going. Remember when robotaxi was going to justify Tesla's P/E being twenty times too high?
Moar techno robot dancing will fix it (Score:2)
Robotaxis are so 2023. Haven't you heard, all the in the know fascists are betting [1]robots [youtube.com] are going to fix everything.
Or was it rooftop solar, I forget.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsNc4nEX3c4
Whew! (Score:2)
Just in the [1]nick of time. [slashdot.org]
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2034227/how-california-reached-a-union-deal-with-tech-giants-uber-and-lyft