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    Le auto a guida autonoma Waymo colpiscono le strade di Londra in preparazione al lancio nel 2026

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    1. ontrack on

      I live in Atlanta, one of the Waymo pioneer cities, and know people who use them (I have not). Heard positive things so far. It is a bit weird seeing no one in the front seat next to you at the traffic light.

    2. JoeyJoeC on

      “There have also been fears over major job losses, with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi acknowledging self-driving cars could eventually leave many taxi drivers unemployed.”

      I’d much prefer self driving than a lot of the experiences I’ve had with uber drivers literally falling asleep almost crashing at a red light. Cars that stink of cigarettes, with drivers constantly coughing the entire journey. Had one driver actually beg for me to give him a 5 star review. One of the recent times I booked a Uber, I watched the driver on the map appear to make multiple trips to fast food places, clearly doing food deliveries before canceling my ride.

      My girlfriend once called be because her Uber driver was taking her into a car park late at night, but then went through the exit saying it was a short cut. Pretty sure he was up to something as she had been drinking that night.

    3. MetricDuckTon on

      Fascinatingly it looks the insurer would hold liability for a crash, assuming everything else (critical software updates installed etc) checked out.

      Ref 2018 British Automated and Electric Vehicles act of parliament:

      > (1) Where—
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      >(a) an accident is caused by an automated vehicle when driving itself on a road or other public place in Great Britain,
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      >(b) the vehicle is insured at the time of the accident, and
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      >(c) an insured person or any other person suffers damage as a result of the accident,
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      >the insurer is liable for that damage.

    4. merkykrem on

      “Self-driving cars hit” is not a good phrase to use in such an article.

    5. seekanddeploy on

      Well seeing London is grid locked for most of the day they won’t be going too far

    7. UnknownTurdy on

      Very funny that Waymo made the effort to have a picture of it at the Abbey Road crossing, yet they managed to take the picture at the wrong one.

      Edit – They probably aimed for Abbey Rd but realized it’s always packed with tourists blocking the road and taking pictures, so settled with one around the corner.

    8. fantasy53 on

      Question is whether these rides will be cheaper than uber.

    9. brainburger on

      I do wonder whether Waymo’s infrastructure is actually cheaper than human drivers. They have a remote control call centre where operators sort out problems with the cars getting stuck etc. It could be cheaper, but I don’t know that it is yet. Also London roads are a lot more challenging than roads in somewhere like Phoenix, Arizona, considering road design and weather.

    10. powpow198 on

      I’ll for one will be sad not to hop in a car that stinks of fresh farts

    11. thb202 on

      The fact that we are having self driving cars which will come into conflict with vulnerable road users before self driven tube trains (which are 99.9999% infallible) is ridiculous.

    12. gideon_giles on

      Used these in Arizona. Felt safer in them than regular taxi and about the same price as uber

    13. Jammoth1993 on

      JLR are notoriously easy to steal, and now criminals just have to ring a cab to get one delivered to their location!

    14. VampyrByte on

      I find self-driving cars to be such a weird thing as the technology itself is incredibly exciting and frankly amazing. I can see how for many journeys I take by car it would be absolutly brilliant.

      But then it comes along and its just Taxis with a weird novelty and worse interface. It’s not really innovating on the car, its innovating on the taxi driver and from the outside thats just boring and uninteresting at best.

    15. TimetravellingElf on

      And what do you do if you need assistance such as being mobility impaired or elderly? Does someone pop out from somewhere to help you?

    16. technurse on

      Narrower roads, cyclists, roadworks, residential streets with on street parking.

      I know Americans have all of that stuff, but they’re definitely a culture and infrastructure built to support cars more. It’ll be interesting to see how they do.

      Then there’s the obviously small part of me that wants to see an article reporting that they’ve abandoned the UK due to anti-clanker vandalism.

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