The self-driving tech company, which already operates in five major U.S. urban markets, plans to launch its service in the Texas city next year, when it’s also expanding to Miami and Washington, DC.
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It entertains the idea that Tesla competes with Waymo. They don't, and never will with just cameras.
I’ve seen a few Waymo with drivers around DC.
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Tesla doesn’t offer a service, they put on a show. They cannot be compared.
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That's one of the biggest problems, people report what fELon says as news instead of calling out his lies.
“They can’t beat us! We’re going to launch before them! Before the end of the year! Tomorrow! Yesterday! We’ve been operating in Dallas for three months already!”
...and remember, Waymo still isn't profitable. Somehow Tesla magically will be, and wildly, in less than a year?
I have been assured by Tesla Stans that Waymo can’t scale.
Have you guys tried Waymo? I tried it several times in LA both during the day and at night. It is excellent. Drives like a super calm driver that is always following the speed limit (even when others are speeding). The first minute or so is still scary but I clam down as it drives and overall it is super pleasant. Of course now that I have posted this, watch some incident happen to me now. :)
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Does anyone actual want robotaxis? Can robotaxis be profitable? Can robo taxis compete with taxis/rideshare/bikes/scooters/trains/plains/walking ?
Iirc his reasoning to get rid of radar and lidar was it didn't look cool.
Honestly, it would be nice if the list of cities Waymo was going to move into in 2026 was like a dozen instead of one. They are apparently looking into Boston, San Diego, New York, Houston and San Antonio as well as Dallas. If they hit all of those in 2026 that would be pretty decent, but even that wouldn't really dent the argument that their rollout is going to be very slow. There are 54 metropolitan areas in the US with a population over a million, and 379 with a population over 500 thousand. Expanding at a pace of a couple a year is going to leave competitors a ton of time to catch up. When is Waymo going to really start growing?
That's what lead means, though? If your opponent is at the starting line and you're further along, you have a lead.
Given that tesla have zero fully autonomous vehicles im not sure the word "lead" is quite vast enough
I wouldn't mind my own car being self driving. That seems to have much more obvious advantages than a for-hire taxi service
It was over licensing costs I believe
Clickbait. They might as well say "WayMo widens lead over kia" or something of the sort. Publications like Forbes, unfortunately, now often pay their "journalists" based on the clicks and ads in the content. I wonder if they realize how horrible that is? Do they just think "oh, well, that's the way things are...we don't really care about the truth or information"? I published on the web - with morals - for over 20 years and made a nice living. When I saw all these pubs starting to put endless ads on pages with two paragraphs of click-bait info, a tear came to my eyes.
Yes, remember- given the removal of tax credits and carbon credits and so-on, Elon is likely to lose money in 2026. It will take a little while to filter through, tho. But do some projections using a decline in sales PLUS substract the money he "made" from us. It's pretty amazing that almost every cent that Dude made is from the Gubment he so hates.
No, they will not have any time to catch up. What are your assumptions? They can only be total fantasy, that being you think it will take other companies less than YEARS....like it takes WayMo, to properly pass the regulations and laws in each of those areas. It's as if people still buy the idea that "we will wake up one day and Elons cars will be Level 5.....direct from Level 2, due to the amazing Neural Net". This will not happen. Other companies will first have to get ONE city down, which will take years. Then they have to decide their committment based on whether this whole deal can be profitable for multiple companies. It would be ignorant for 10 companies to invest in a market that might be able to support 2 - unless, like WayMo, that investment is such a small part of their revenue that it does not matter. This is Teslas downfall. The company, despite Elons BS, has all it's eggs in one basket and the bottom is falling out of that basket.
Hmmm....I don't think so. In the targeted areas the density is great enough that car ownership is often a negative. Here is another important factor. Ask Google...you will see the average yearly cost of a car is 12 to 14K. So it will be 15K or more by the time these are widely available. 30K is a BIG HOLE in the budget for most people...maybe not for you and I, but for the vast majority of Americans. I see a world where, at first, many of us will be one car families instead of two. Then we will be zero cars with perhaps the availability of just stepping into one (of various types) within a few blocks of our house when we need to do something special...sort of an automatic Turo. When the economy of owning a car - added to the danger - tells us not to own one, most will not own one.
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