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YoshidaYui

(42,725 posts) Sun Jul 16, 2023, 02:35 PM Jul 2023

TV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco

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TV journalist documents wild ride inside Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco (Original Post) YoshidaYui Jul 2023 OP

No thank you. kimbutgar Jul 2023 #1

Back to the drawing board. Driverless car technology has a long way to go. brush Jul 2023 #2

Back to taxicabs orthoclad Jul 2023 #4

"Your doors will be locked until we get to the destination" sanatanadharma Jul 2023 #3

1966 novel of driverless car society, orthoclad Jul 2023 #5

San Francisco is tricky. Human drivers are more appropriate and more FUN. usonian Jul 2023 #6

kimbutgar

(23,283 posts)

1. No thank you.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 03:06 PM

Jul 2023

I can’t imagine driving up steep SF hills either!

brush

(57,555 posts)

2. Back to the drawing board. Driverless car technology has a long way to go.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 03:25 PM

Jul 2023

Uber, Lyft and actual cabs have drivers, you know, the person you can talk to to get you where you want to go.

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)

4. Back to taxicabs

Reply to brush (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 03:52 PM

Jul 2023

Publicly regulated.

sanatanadharma

(4,074 posts)

3. "Your doors will be locked until we get to the destination"

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 03:34 PM

Jul 2023

But we are here, let me out! Say the riders realizing that the car kidnapping them.

"Not your destination, "I" Waymo will decide when we have arrived."

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)

5. 1966 novel of driverless car society,

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 04:04 PM

Jul 2023

The Four Day Weekend.

It didn't go well.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1708440.The_Four_Day_Weekend

Some entertaining reviews there.

usonian

(13,848 posts)

6. San Francisco is tricky. Human drivers are more appropriate and more FUN.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Jul 16, 2023, 04:39 PM

Jul 2023

My most interesting drive through San Francisco was in the dark, driving up a steep hill in a 2-wheel drive pickup truck with stick shift, in the rain on steel trolley rails.

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