| ▲ | Waymo – Dallas Open to All(waymo.com) |
| 80 points by xnx 2 hours ago | 72 comments |
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| ▲ | cortesoft 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I live very close to LAX, and we have hundreds of Waymos in our area. At first i was a little weary, and kinda weirded out by all of them. They have become completely normal, and cause WAY fewer traffic incidents than human drivers. They are very predictable, and will always let you pull in front of them when changing lanes (unlike a lot of other LA drivers). I have seen a few incidents where they seem 'stuck', and it was a bit annoying and kind of funny, but again, it does not happen nearly as often as for human drivers. I also like taking them. It is nice to just get in and relax and not have to talk to anyone or worry about who is going to pick you up. You can control the temperature and music from your phone, you can drop the pin exactly where you want to be dropped off and picked up, and the ride is smooth and comfortable. We can debate all the knock on effects of Waymos, but the user experience is pretty great. |
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| ▲ | arjie 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Surprisingly low hype for a company running perhaps the most advanced consumer-interactive robots. I’m quite fond of these machines and will periodically rescue them when someone has misused them (door not closed, most commonly). Hope they do well. Very good road participants. |
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| ▲ | cyanregiment 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Your brown nosing is not going to save you in the AI apocalypse. Lord Waymo (His Graciousness, Blessed Be His Name) will deal with you like the rest of us 6th gear? More like 6th tear because of how much we'll be crying when AI does get us. 6th fear because of how scared you'll be |
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| ▲ | hmokiguess 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Missed opportunity to say "Open to Y'all" |
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| ▲ | daemonologist an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Service area: https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9059119?hl=en#DAL |
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| ▲ | quxbar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Here in Austin, I'm stuck calling an uber and hoping I get a Waymo. When does that deal expire? |
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| ▲ | semiquaver an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Dallasites
Is that seriously the demonym? Terrible. Try harder, Dallasites. |
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| ▲ | ndm000 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Having grown up in Dallas, I usually just say "Texan" and call it a day. | |
| ▲ | dgunay 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It sounds too much like "parasite" for me to be comfortable using it. I'm assuming some random person made it up. It's okay to just say "people of/from <place>", guys. | | |
| ▲ | raddan 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | But then you lose extra important information from words like "masshole." |
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| ▲ | adrianmonk 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What's your better suggestion? Dallasonian? Dallaser? Dallasan? Also, do you have the same issue with the demonyms Manhattanite or Seattleite? | |
| ▲ | gumby271 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Dallmatians | |
| ▲ | chasd00 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | better than "cityofhate" which is what we're called most of the time. | | | |
| ▲ | seizethecheese 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Texas -> Texan
Kansas - Kansan
Honduras -> Honduran It should be Dallan? | |
| ▲ | mchusma an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I thought it was a typo, or strange url at first. | |
| ▲ | bijowo1676 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I like North Texans | |
| ▲ | gryfft an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Dallasians?
Dallasers?
Dallaslets? Dallards? | | |
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| ▲ | Cider9986 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It does seem necessary to have cameras inside driverless cars but I don't want to if Google is running the show. Your biometrics will probably be stored for "enforcing Google's policies" at a minimum [1]. And then a Waymo dropped teenagers off at the police? I don't care if that was a human, I don't want no snitch car service [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027861 https://www.404media.co/waymo-called-police-on-teens-san-mat... |
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| ▲ | rawgabbit an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No freeways. But Waymo now is available to all of Dallas? Does that include the suburbs? |
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| ▲ | nolastan an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It's open to _everyone in Dallas_, not available _in all of Dallas_. | | | |
| ▲ | cco an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I believe they paused freeways everywhere because they drove through some construction (or didn't handle construction zones well). | | | |
| ▲ | advisedwang an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Open to all people, not open to all roads. | |
| ▲ | dminvs an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | looks like Bishop Arts -> Fair Park -> White Rock -> NW Hwy -> Hampton/Inwood, with a weird section jutting out toward Irving along 114 so, no suburbs, only enclaves | | |
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| ▲ | Sheeny96 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why are the cars so big? Wouldn't it make sense to have a bunch of much smaller, single person vehicles? |
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| ▲ | cortesoft 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Why would it make more sense? It isn't like a car half the size would cost half as much, but it would severely limit the capacity. Now, you can get a waymo for 1-4 people, but if some (or all) were single occupant, you would be limited. Being smaller does not help that much much in cost per mile, but has a big cost for functionality. | |
| ▲ | jwpapi 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I’m thinking that since 2015. Like BMW C1 just with doors on the side and a bit more security. This would approx allow 3-4x as many travellers on a given route compared to traditional cars. | | |
| ▲ | grim_io 13 minutes ago | parent [-] | | A C1 with more security, meaning more material and air between you and a potential high-speed obstacle, is called a car and is sized like one. |
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| ▲ | arccy 5 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Americans are fat, they don't fit. | |
| ▲ | smt88 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | SFC costs don’t scale linearly with volume or number of seats. The cameras, LIDAR, and sensors are all fixed costs. You need them on even a single-person car. And they’re extremely costly. |
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| ▲ | seltzered_ 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Something to hold in mind are the issues with scaling out to new cities in terms of safety risks: https://junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/rapid-scaling-turns... |
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| ▲ | breckenedge 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Service area is still miniscule. |
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| ▲ | xnx 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Gotta start somewhere. Still bigger than any competitor. |
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| ▲ | elianaive 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Keeps on being rolled out in red states while being delayed in blue states, quite unfortunate. |
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| ▲ | runako 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Divide this differently: - states where the major cities commonly have snow for > 3 months - states where the major cities commonly have snow for < 1 month Inclement weather is likely the differentiator. Blue state California gets Waymo in its biggest cities, which handily do not get much snow. The other Waymo cities are all below the Mason-Dixon Line. | | | |
| ▲ | cortesoft 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They have been fully open here in Los Angeles for almost two years now. | |
| ▲ | Zigurd 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's easier to roll out in places where it seldom snows. | | |
| ▲ | xnx 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Definitely true, but snow affecting driving conditions is becoming pretty rare in cities like Chicago. |
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| ▲ | dmitrygr 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Maybe it's something you've got that they haven't got." - Owen Kellogg | |
| ▲ | mrtesthah 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Is it unfortunate, though? | |
| ▲ | km3r 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | The anti-science slopulism of the far left is infecting blue states. Hopefully the liberal left can fight back to prevent the party being taken over like maga did to Republicans. | | |
| ▲ | wwalexander 26 minutes ago | parent [-] | | What “anti-science slopulism” are you referring to? And what does corporate rollout strategy have to do with science? | | |
| ▲ | xnx 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | History of being anti-nuclear. Now against "AI" and self driving cars because they like trains. |
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| ▲ | airstrike 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I love Waymo. The only problem I have with it is that it further siphons wages from local economies into Silicon Valley, beyond what Uber/Lyft already did. |
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| ▲ | yieldcrv 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Waymo sells itself People hate human drivers more than they hate the idea of AI drivers https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/business/uber-sexual-assa... |
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| ▲ | bicx 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s an extremely consistent experience, and you can sit in the front seat (something I like personally). With Uber and taxi services, you never know what kind of driver or ride you’re going to get. | | |
| ▲ | ooopsss 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Uber is at least 1000x better than traditionally taxi, without any rating system. | | |
| ▲ | sbuttgereit 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They use to be (along with Lyft). But it's been a very long time since that was clearly true. In reality I think you can get better experiences than a taxi with a rideshare service (which they really aren't for a very long time), but it's very hit or miss. So less consistently bad as a taxi service... but far from consistently good. |
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| ▲ | giancarlostoro 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | The real test is, can these self-driving cars drive I-4 without getting into any sort of wreck? https://www.worldatlas.com/places/the-most-dangerous-highway... |
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| ▲ | Geezus_42 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Dallas drivers are bad enough already... |
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| ▲ | ape4 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Anyone with a credit card |
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| ▲ | ventana 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Debit card works just fine with Waymo, just like with Lyft and Uber. | |
| ▲ | wilg 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm sure you can imagine why it might be unnecessarily complicated for a Waymo to take cash. | |
| ▲ | 1over137 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | And presumably their app?, which requires either an Apple or Google account. | | |
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