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I think it varies by location. I think they can in SF and other cities where they’ve been around a while. They can’t do highways where I am, but they only started doing public W…
by snailmailman · Oct 21, 2026
This is kind of a classic misinformation pattern to present contrasting view points side by side as if they are an order of magnitude as common. similar thing used to happen in…
by blululu · Oct 21, 2026
As a tourist in SF about two weeks ago I experienced a bit of superhuman driving from a Waymo. On one of these 30-degree downhill slopes, a long truck was stopped in the middle…
by pama · Oct 21, 2026
Waymo does a full stop before making a right turn. I hate how people make blind right turns even though it is the pedestrian's right-of-way. The auto industry has a firm hold on…
by nisanthan · Oct 21, 2026
Interesting. We don't have Waymo in my city, but we sure do have a lot of Uber drivers who can be relied upon to unleash a fusillade of angry honking when the car in front of th…
by bunderbunder · Oct 21, 2026
In Austin, I've never been in one but I constantly see them making weird decisions and once, it was a red on left turn a waymo ahead of me and me behind it the turn left turned…
by michelsedgh · Oct 21, 2026
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Waymo LLC is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. As of June 2026, Waymo operates public commercial robotaxi services in 10 US metropolitan areas, has 3,871 robotaxis in service, provides 500,000 paid rides per week, and has logged 200 million fully autonomous miles. Read more on Wikipedia