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What the spinning thing on the side of the car?
This is waymo cool than I was expecting
Puro naco con dinero la va a comprar.
The Game of Thrones guys coming in to ruin Netflix.
But can they make kit from Knight Rider that's a driverless car ad pay for
Elon: This truck has lights Everyone: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
I think we know what historians and the elites are afraid of. Exhume the body and prove the doubters wrong. If the authorities, historians, etc. are so sure of JWB being in that grave, then exhume the body and prove that the written account of history is correct.
Poeple really don’t realize that zuckerburg is under so much pressure that he doesn’t say 1 slightly controversial answer
Try test drive in India then you will get the real results and then try to make improvements
Any tesla car can do that
It's mustard
I am thinking I have two kidney. Need to......for iPhone 11
I’m still confused to what inspired this design.
Do they use the same maps as google navigation? How do they go with turning across main arterial roads in peak hour? Android auto sometimes wants me to turn across one and there's no chance it's going to happen. I've always wondered if autonomous cars are going to have trouble with it. You'd think they could work it into the programming where they're detecting how many cars are using the main road and realise it's not a good time to try to turn across it.
Elon has created something uglier than a Pontiac Aztec and I didn't think that was possible.
Waymo vs Tesla Smart summon
Elon: Could you try to break this glass That guy: Ok bet
make a cybertank
Waymo? Should be, NoWay!
How do you know it’s not ‘taking you for a ride’? I’ve been on a few in NY.
How do you tell it where to stop in a car park? Or where in your drive to park so you can unload your shopping more easily?
If the car runs down a pedestrian who's fault is it? Can you arrest a computer for negligence?
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I am selling my BMW and I can't wait to have the CyberTruck instead ! Thanks Tesla !
Pablo looks happier now that he has lost his billions. more money more problems.
I want fuit gummy
Honestly I just want it as a pet more than anything
Wow !
Sounds like a good tech for the military to grab you iris scans and log it in their database. And play war games using you meme as target.
WTH is this moustache?
How would they handle a disaster, like fires, floods or earthquakes? We had a massive series of quakes several years ago that moves some roads several meters up, down and/or sideways making GPS-based navigation useless. In some places the only way though was along a footpath, through a park, or even up someone's driveway. I just don't ever see AI being flexible enough to handle that sort of scenario.
I'd want someone in the driver's seat who can take over at any moment if the AV tech on board either stops working, or can't deal with the situation at hand. I don't quite trust the technology yet.
'Before we know if self-driving cars are really worth all this effort'. Of course they are! Of course they will get safer than humans. This really is purely a question of the timeframe. Once a computer learns to handle a specific tricky situation, it will always handle that situation perfectly. It's just a question of getting them used to all tricky situations possible
So they can make driverless cars but can't deactivate seat belt alarm? 😂
Cool car! Boring video
Great information and very well done! Thanks a lot!
I wonder how it would fare in London with its terrible drivers
Lashan it wouldn't. They only work on very specific, carefully mapped roads. It's not a general solution yet
Now make it hover
“This is!” excited “This is “ excited “fuckingbeautiful”he whispered. You can hear the fulfillment.
Never trust a man who doesn’t inhale a joint on a video podcast
So he based "animals" on just rodents? So what about cats? Dogs? There are 5 million different species on earth and your basing them on rodents...
So excited the future is Bright 😎😀😎
This what car i wouldve wanted in back to future
I bet all the specs are BS, no one will ever buy this
But why are these cars have to look like the have tumors all over them? Are these sensor that much more advanced than the one from Tesla?
it the way we do it who play game one hand?
4:36 ”No other company is testing driverless car technology at the speed and scale that Waymo is” Yeah, Tesla is doing it at a much bigger scale.
Tesla's tech is way behind Waymo's. They might have more customers using their auto-assist but everything about the quality is noticeably worse than Waymo's. The main advantage that Tesla has is that its customers are using it in geographies and terrains that Waymo hasn't tried it (but they probably have lots of data for those terrains too).
@Anunnecessarilylonguserid thatnoonereads No this is level 4, since it is geofenced. Tesla is level 2, since it cant handle intersections yet.
No it isn't. This is level 5. Tesla is only level 4 yet
Honestly it's the ugliest thing I've seen, great specs but shocking looking thing
It's cool and all, but it will never have the swag like the guy on 7:02
How do those cars recognise traffic signals?
I didn’t even know there was a 2nd version
Just need R2D2 in the front seat and I’m sold!
For my, the Worst android experience....
Some driver lost his job.
Some autonomous car technicians got theirs.
I assume Waymo pre-plan and heavily map their routes so it becomes a "routine" drive. You can have an unlimited number of variables where a human needs to take over, eg. traffic officer directing traffic with hand gestures, traffic lights malfunction, drivers yielding to each other etc. In Europe the roads can be narrow and there's usually a lot of "I wait" or "you go first" and vice versa. I can tell if an authorized person is holding a stop sign or not - but could a self-driving car ever know?
It can 'every know', yes or course. Your brain is just a glorified computer, making decisions based on data it gets. What your saying is the reason driverless cars are still a ways out, but when talking on a infinite timescale anything is possible :)
Too much video of us watching you talk inside the car. Show us the view outside while it's making manoeuvers. Couldn't you rent another vehicle to do follow shots?
3:29 - weird wheel twitch
Dieter should be the host
79th comment, 815th like with 29th comment and 6,736th view!! Great video and informative!!
hey Sundar do you mind helping me get 120000 today please I am short of only 26000.
Elon Musk: I made ramen noodles in the microwave Crowd: woohoo!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!
this is waymo better than tesla's
I don’t get. On the one hand I hear a lot of experts say that driverless cars are many many years in the future. But on the other hand I see videos like this...
Waymo is geo fenced so not the most ideal!
there's a few companies very close. whoever told you it won't happen soon has been asleep for a decade or two. they wouldn't let tests like this happen unless they were pretty reliable already
Martin Malmgren because it’s still many years in the future. It’s kind of like what the guy said that works for Waymo, there’s still a lot situations that the car can’t understand a human and can pick up immediately.
"Aand it's going to the center lane". *Shows Andy and the dashboard instead of the view of the road in front*
seatbelt
well i trust Porsche more then Telsa to be honest.
Honestly I would just stick to Autonomous Shuttle Buses like the Muji GACHA for now
Casper the Friendly Uber Driver.
What is the purpose of putting seatbelt for driver less seat?
The cars are generic ones so they come with the seats intact. Also, it probably makes customers more at ease seeing a vehicle that's as standard as possible and not a weird one that lacks a driver's seat.
So the car doesn't beep at you for being in Drive without the seatbelt engaged
I think it's funny that the non-existent driver was buckled in
what do u think about self driving car? safer than human drivers?
UG sucre not yet. Even the waymo guy said that the technology isn’t advance enough to understand situations that a human can immediately
Now go get your shinebox!
Automation kills jobs. When will it end? Now they are removing cashiers from restaurants and having YOU place your own order. I will not use these auto cars or restaurants with no cashiers. Take a STAND. If we don’t use it, they won’t make it.
But I want jobs to be killed?
Luddite
Tech Innovation Rocks! 🔥 This Topic Sounds Interesting and Scary at the Same Time 🔥
Ready for a movie where the car goes on a rampage
Wow these are waymo advanced than I expected
9Br3ak3r it's amazing. But do know all the roads they drive on, are already pre-scanned by Google and extremely carefully mapped. These cars can't drive on any road, just the specific ones they are trained for
When entering a construction zone with a posted reduced speed limit, will the driver-less vehicle automatically make the adjustment, or is it done by one of the persons monitoring the vehicle?
Dave Id automatically adjust it
Fiat Multipla looks better as This.
Waymo cars are very UnAerodynamic
2:15 Google Phone Google Car
@Stonewall Jackson Waymo is a company that's owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company. They probably have all the people, data, AI and resources they need from Google too.
Google had some dealing with the production of this car ,Right?
The dream car of every Minecraft player.
It’s almost impossible to incorporate driverless cars with non driverless cars, if they have a city or town with only driverless cars, I think that would be quite easy to do
"almost impossible" you're literally watching it happen in this video. what is happening to peoples brains nowadays?
It's totally possible. Being able to replace all cars with driverless cars at once would make things significantly easier but we'll get there without the unrealistic scenario.
Only Minecraft players will like this car
last time i saw one of these videos there was a emergency takeover driver on the driver seat, but not this tym...........have they perfected the autonomous driving tech?
Nilesh Kumar Routray not perfected. If it was perfected they wouldn’t have only done this in a small 50 mile radius. It’s advance technology but not perfect
Launch this in India. The car will learn to honk/abuse seamlessly and get 10 years worth of experience in a day !!
Better road infrastructure, 5g and smart stop lights would speed up self driving cars.
I am not a terrible driver. In fact I am a very good driver so please don't say humans say few people.
@Usman Tariq me too. Even the best human drivers won't be able to compete to absolute attention AI can pay to the road and task at hand for what is essentially infite time, never getting tired.
@Usman Tariq The majority of humans make mistakes nearly every time they drive, we just get lucky a lot
@Grzegorz Widła thanks so much for the reply but I am referring to the humans not just me.
Compared to what AI has potential to do you're an awful driver.
Saw waymo in DTLA, Are they gonna switch them to all electric vehicles? Does Google have plans to make flying cars cuz I'm waymo re into that?
this is waymo scary.
This is nuts.
People don't understand this fully, despite what you see in this video (which is impressive) is that we are actually still decades away from truly driverless cars...
E? For ECONOMY LOL
"Andy with the Verrrrge"
I love how the driver's seat also has the seat belt fastened...lol...
@day spoiler that makes sense
@day spoiler waymo: literally makes driverless cars waymo: can't get the beeping to stop
so it doesn't beep
Deskilling at it's finest. Still cool to see how progressive Alphabet/Google is though.
All the drivers secretly wishing this fails miserably.
Quite good
This is the way. Waymo have spoken.
Captain America : i understood the reference 🤩🤖🚀
Here goes another job 😱
We've been talking about that for decades now. If any driver hasn't prepared for that time and is not retiring in next 10 years he'll have only himself to blame.
Andrew Yang
Spotted a few of these while driving near the resorts in Chandler! What a sight to behold!