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pretty sure more than 15,000 people need to get to work in the morning
Wtf is a Waymo. Sounds like a kids toy.
Tickle Me Waymo lmao
It’s a self driving taxi startup. It doesn’t drive itself reliablh. It relies on call center workers in the global south to take control of the cars when they run into trouble. They already have killed several people and are programmed to only avoid specific objects they identify, if they identify you as ‘other’ they’ll just run you over (yes this has already happened)
Anyway, paying a bus driver and building rail infrastructure is completely unthinkable and inefficient dontcha know?
conservative 12 year average life of the waymo
…what? Taxis do like 50k+ miles a year of hard city driving, they get replaced every 3 to 6 years. So even his “conservative” math is fucked.
His sole piece of evidence for the longevity of an urban taxi cab is the one driven by Earnest Borgnine in Escape from New York
SF public transit sits at half a million per day ridership so I’m looking forward to being crammed into a car with about 333 other people
Clown car
Tom Nicholas did a good video on how this company buys up science youtubers to pump their company to others as a thinly veiled “cool science video on AI cars” and it’s pretty damning. Veritasium crying now
The one veritasium video I watched was about the Incompleteness Theorem. Since it was just about a math topic I don’t think there was anything to shill, and I thought it was well done (not a mathematician, cannot assess it in that way). But then I see the other videos recommended now and again and they typically look like bait 'n bro.
Theorem: Any lay explanation of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems is either incomplete or inconsistent.
Proof: :made-it-the-fuck-up:
I’m only sour about these because it’s one of those things like string theory or “0.999…=1” that attracts almost exclusively cranks who want to use whatever details they internalized from the NATOpedia page and use it to explain why orgones are real or whatever.
His channel has settled into a rhythm of doing 1 really good, gorgeous video on math or physics, then a horrible slop video that’s often just a commercial for some company. If you can pick up on the vibe of which one you’re watching at any time, you need only waste 30 or so seconds before you skip the ones that aren’t worthwhile.
I’d heard he was good but my first taste was that video and it’s like 💀 not even subtle shilling.
If you’re a very math oriented person I think you probably wouldn’t like anything he makes for being too surface level. If you’re interested in math but haven’t done math beyond maybe an undergrad level, his math history videos are both gorgeously animated and pretty compelling in narrative so they help carry across the concepts. All the other videos tend to be slop.
Yeah it would probably be lost on me but it’s absolutely something my bf would love so I’m recommending it to him
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Anytime a tech bro/company suggest a novel way of x (where x is transportation or etc.), it’s always something that’s either not really better than what currently exist or just a worse version but have their horseshit techtalk terms attached to it to sound novel/cool.
I’ve stopped reading after the first sentence and am just letting the idea of 15,000 waymos in one place marinate in my mind
Good points here on operating costs. Want to add, there is no way one of those is 120k. The shitty jaguar truck it’s based on is at least 60k alone delivered and then it needs to get totally disassembled to install the arrays and sensors to make it
run over pedestrians on purposedrive.Against:
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Ridiculously more energy inefficient
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Incredibly space inefficient
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Incredibly throughput inefficient
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Will be much more expensive than using public transport.
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Will cause a lot more traffic
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Will cause a lot more accidents
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There’s no way those operating costs are correct
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Because that’s what California needs! More traffic! Does it come with a free AI generated printed image of a crying train too?
Can other STEM disciplines get as smug as CSers are? I’d love to have a civil engineer and an urban planner laugh at these dipshits for claiming we should abolish public transport for their technoslop.
Can other STEM disciplines get as smug as CSers are? I’d love to have a civil engineer and an urban planner laugh at these dipshits for claiming we should abolish public transport for their technoslop.
Oh they can, in my experience mechanical and aeronautical engineers do it a lot. Not to mention chemical engineers who have a very material reason to be kissing big oil and big processed food’s ass.
Engineering school is where humility goes to die, the worst part about chemical engineering school was dealing with the overinflated egos of everyone, from professors to freshpeople.
Shit sucks, engineering sounds like you’ll either come across the best people you’ll ever meet, or ghouls who knew they were smart enough for something beyond MBAs.
I worked for them for several years and $8,000 in operating costs per vehicle is utterly ridiculous
Electric cars do require much less maintenance, but 8K a year would barely pay for someone to keep the windshield wiper fluid topped off much less the kind of issues that would pop up in a fleet of 15k vehicles.
I wonder what would happen to traffic with 15,000 extra vehicles within the city limits. Something tells me it won’t relieve congestion or make the streets any safer.
But it would make a couple of vulture capitalists a lot of money.
I mean, even on top of maintenance the entire system is basically just on rails, it has to be mapped out manually, every car has a ‘guy in the chair’ that can control the car remotely if necessary, they also got guys in unmarked vans that follow the driverless cars in case of emergency, and on top of that every car is constantly collecting data and that storage is insane, all of that falls under operational costs completely independent of maintenance issues
Wouldn’t even cover the human fluids cleanup costs of 15,000 autonomous taxis
yeah it sounds like that dril tweet about needing help with his budget but for coming up with operating cost assumptions for a business plan
please help why won’t any venture capitalists fund me?I found riding in a Waymo quite fascinating. Why did you quit?
Cuz the way they’re running the company is going to get somebody killed, which I know because I also worked at another self-driving car company that did. I was excited by the technology because of its potential, but it’s clear that the only capacity it will be allowed to exist at this point is basically exactly what the op was asking for, a trendy expensive alternative to public transit that also serves you Google ads
Cuz the way they’re running the company is going to get somebody killed
Aren’t Waymos already safer than regular drivers per mile?
which I know because I also worked at another self-driving car company that did
Cruise? 🪦
the only capacity it will be allowed to exist at this point is basically exactly what the op was asking for, a trendy expensive alternative to public transit that also serves you Google ads
Dang eh. Even if the tech improves (I assume it’s improving), you think it won’t be able to get on more roads due to regulation?
Weird that “it is a functioning product” isn’t listed in the assumptions
Wild how at this point we are arguing for busses instead of bazinga rental scams; when less than a century ago busses were the bazinga scam getting rid of trams, railcars, and trolleys.
Instead of 1000 buses what about 15,000 smaller buses without routes or schedules that would be much more efficient
Surely 15,000 smaller buses can fit into the same space without any issues!
