Waymo has completed 2M paid rider-only trips

https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1816866067232202972

by ra7 • 2 years ago

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more_corn• 2 years ago

Completed is a strong word. Mine wouldn’t let me out. I had to wait for it to stop at a light and bail. I’m pretty sure they should mark that a zero. MARK IT A ZERO DONNIE THIS ISNT NAM, THERE ARE RULES.

JumpCrisscross• 2 years ago

Mine wouldn’t let me out. I had to wait for it to stop at a light and bail

You're upset it wouldn't let you out of a moving vehicle?

spaced-out• 2 years ago

Some of us like to jump out of moving vehicles and do a cool roll or flip like in an action movie! This is yet another use case the Silicon Valley technocrats didn't consider...

MrJohz• 2 years ago

Possibly they wanted it to stop near their destination somewhere and let them out, but instead it kept going. Therefore, they need to get out at the next place it happened to stop (which in this case was a stop light).

I have no experience with Waymo though, so I have no idea if this is the case, or if the car was repositioning to find a better place to let the rider out, or something else entirely.

39896880• 2 years ago

“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.“

yamumsahoe• 2 years ago

being locked in a futuristic car thats the most first world problem of all first world problems lol

MichaelNolan2• 2 years ago

The 1m rides mark was announced May 10th and 50k trips per week was announced May 16th. So they must be getting close to 100k rides per week if my math is right.

refulgentis2• 2 years ago

You're absolutely right, 90,900/week. Astonishing. ~2x in 3 months? [1]

Are we seeing the hockey stick?

They've been consistently candid, and indicated the next vehicle is the one they'll scale on, custom taxi by Chinese automaker Zeekr. I figured it'd be another couple years, maybe build out LA, scale SF to highways, and then maybe Zeekr. But they recently started testing it, way ahead of what I thought they would...[2]

EDIT: -3?! Anyone have feedback? Genuinely surprised. :)

[1] May 10th to July 26th = 77 days 1,000,000 rides / 77 days = 12987 rides/day 12987 rides / days * 7 days/week = 90909 rides/week

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/the-waymo-zeekr-robotaxi-h... Steps: May 10th to June 1st = 21 days June 1 to June 30th = 30 days July 1st to July 26th = 26 days

1m rides in 67 days = 130k

MichaelNolan2• 2 years ago

It’s really impressive growth. Especially since they only have the iPace and not the zeeker yet. I’m really curious how much they will scale with the iPace.

cbhl• 2 years ago

You wouldn't expect Waymo to hockey stick though. It's not software.

Waymo's scale is constrained by many factors: (1) physical cars (requires capital), (2) hi-def mapping, (3) operations (depots to charge, clean and maintain cars, "fleet response" - https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/), and (4) regulatory environment (permits on a city/county/state basis).

lopkeny12ko• 2 years ago

over 2 million paid rider-only trips completed

And how many of those trips were actually "rider only" and not "rider with remote assistance operator"?

andrewmcwatters• 2 years ago

rider with remote assistance operator

Do you mean like, remote driver? Or a specialist had to help a fleet vehicle out of a weird hangup? Because based on my experience, it's probably nearly all of them minus some nominal percentage during events like navigating downtown Phoenix during Comicon.

If I remember reading, they can't remotely drive the vehicles.

Waymo has completed 2M paid rider-only trips

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