I may be taking a #waymo to #googlenext but I’m tooting about it from an iPhone, dammit.

»America’s Most Tech-Forward City Has Doubts About #SelfDrivingCars: Alphabet’s #Waymo and General Motors’ #Cruise are struggling to win over #SanFrancisco residents and officials.« https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-most-tech-forward-city-has-doubts-about-self-driving-cars-d6b098e0?eicker.news #tech #media

Amazon's Zoox is hoping to mount a challenge to #Alphabet ’'s #Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise with a vehicle that has inward-facing seats but no steering wheel or pedals. #Zoox, whose vehicles travel at 35 miles per hour, is not yet authorized to pick up riders in any state.

Amazon has begun transporting employees around Las Vegas.

#driverless #autonomous #Amazon

@dangoodin

Now I want to be a #fireman / #firefighter, just to have a justification for putting a fire #axe through the windshield of an automated murderbot.

@jwz

#FireAxe #MurderBot #Cruise #Waymo

I am loving my time here in Arizona so far. I just heard that they have self driving cars in Phoenix that I plan to try out at some point this weekend. #Waymo

#Waymo may be impressive, but did y’all realize #Subaru was *actually* out here training dogs to drive?!

Happy to join #Waymo today, working on machine learning research for autonomous vehicle planning 😀

eicker.news #technews »Two companies race to deploy #robotaxis in #SanFrancisco: The city’s transportation officials sent letters this week to #Californiaregulators asking them to #halt or #scaleback the expansion plans of #Cruise and #Waymo.« https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/san-francisco-looks-hit-brakes-self-driving-cars-rcna66204

☹️ Alphabet’s #Waymo Robotaxi Subsidiary Cuts Staff, Including Trucking Engineers - The posts indicated that Waymo cut recruiters, people who help train other employees to operate the vehicles, and technical staff focused on automating semitrailer trucks. The total number of laid off “Waymonauts” at the roughly 2,500-person company couldn’t immediately be learned https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabets-waymo-robotaxi-subsidiary-cuts-staff-including-trucking-engineers #layoffs

Has anyone gotten to try #Waymo self driving in SF? Is it looking like (geographically bounded) level 5 is within reach?

At work I specialize in #developerproductivity. I work in simulation at #Waymo. Before that I worked on #staticanalysis (Tricorder) and #integrationtesting (Guitar) at Google. Before that I was a PhD student at #NYU where I contributed to CVC4.

I am not a believer in methodologies or best practices. I just do what I do and try not to mess up too often.

#introductions

Excited that today is my first day at Waymo!! #waymo

In Los Angeles soll es schon bald einen fahrerlosen #Taxi-Service 🚖 geben. Die Fahrzeuge werden #remote, durch Sprachbefehle gesteuert. Eine Steuerung durch Operatoren soll dann eingesetzt werden, wenn es sich um "High-Level-Fragen" handelt, auf die das Auto nicht fehlerfrei reagieren kann. #Waymo, die Alphabet-Tochter, erklärt im folgenden Artikel ihr Konzept:

https://www.theis-consult.com/r/10h