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Waymo says Austin, Texas, will be its next robotaxi city (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Waymo says its driverless taxis will traverse “a large portion of the city night and day,” covering spots like “the heart of downtown, Barton Hills, Riverside, East Austin, Hyde Park and more.” The company makes no mention of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, where the taxi business is typically the most lucrative.

I don't understand how a driverless car can work when we barely paint lines on our streets, sure as heck can't see lanes in the rain most of the time. Also, how will these things react to the people that like to run up to the front of lines and just cut in without any regard to other's safety, will the smart car just slam on the brakes?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't wait for even the slightest rain to totally cripple the entire fleet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Waymo is perfectly able to drive in rain or fog

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was more so commenting on how painted road lines here become nearly invisible when it rains. AFAIK, a lot of self driving tech relies on visible road lines to direct itself, but maybe the tech is good enough now to where it doesn't really matter.

In any case, I guess it can't be much worse than how the human drivers here handle things, lol.