Oh, ok. Oh, here’s another one driving away like it’s supposed to, but it suddenly stopped in the middle of the street and it turns out it looked like the door was closed, but it wasn’t completely closed. So the car probably was doing what it was supposed to do, but no one could figure out what was going on. In the meantime, there was *** big backlog of cars behind it. It couldn’t get around it. We do take uh uh flow of traffic seriously. Uh And we also take uh seriously prioritizing actual safety uh you know, of the environment and riders as well. So, uh what I can say is there’s layers and layers of uh safety in depth that has been designed here. The unexpected stops are absolutely an issue. What’s more or less telling you is that they, that the vehicles have not quite yet figured out how to operate in tremendously complicated environments. That was right. All indeed. But today we had *** smooth landing both ways. *** little bit of *** problem where we got dropped off on the way out by cherry who chose to drop off at *** bus stop. Unfortunately. When the bus was rolling up and that caused some commotion at the bus stop. So that could have gone better. But Cherry did *** good job navigating around *** couple of situations we seen in San Francisco with cars parked in the middle of the street, so we still have work to do. But um it’s improving at *** pretty rapid rate. And that’s, that’s one of the beauties of this kind of technology. It’s not just the pickup and drop off experience will get really fine tuned and elegant over time, but also the safety continues to improve and the smoothness continue to improve the human likeness. You know how human like the maneuvers are. It’s not exactly clear that based on how much it’ll cost per trip that this is going to be affordable. It’s not exactly clear that these vehicles are going to help us reduce congestion or reduce emissions.
The Waymo autonomous ride-hailing service is coming to Pittsburgh.Waymo announced Wednesday that Pittsburgh is one of the cities where it will expand. The list also includes Philadelphia, Baltimore and St. Louis.VIDEO ABOVE: Driverless taxis navigate complex road to future”This week, we’ll start manually driving in Pittsburgh’s downtown core with a fleet of our 5th and 6th generation Waymo Driver. We’ll validate our technology on Pittsburgh’s roads over the coming months as we work our way towards public launch in the future,” said a message posted on the company’s official blog.No date has been announced for Waymo rides to be publicly available in Pittsburgh. The company said people can sign up here to get updates.Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been testing autonomous taxis for years. Those taxis are currently available in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Austin. The Associated Press contributed to this article.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
PITTSBURGH —
The Waymo autonomous ride-hailing service is coming to Pittsburgh.
Waymo announced Wednesday that Pittsburgh is one of the cities where it will expand. The list also includes Philadelphia, Baltimore and St. Louis.
VIDEO ABOVE: Driverless taxis navigate complex road to future
“This week, we’ll start manually driving in Pittsburgh’s downtown core with a fleet of our 5th and 6th generation Waymo Driver. We’ll validate our technology on Pittsburgh’s roads over the coming months as we work our way towards public launch in the future,” said a message posted on the company’s official blog.
No date has been announced for Waymo rides to be publicly available in Pittsburgh. The company said people can sign up here to get updates.
Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been testing autonomous taxis for years. Those taxis are currently available in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Austin.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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