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70. Waymo is increasingly popular in San Francisco

Fri May 23, 2025, 03:29 PM

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People were slow to adapt to it, afraid to try it, but now they're generally well thought of and I have friends who prefer it to dealing with a human drivers. It's interesting to observe.

Personally, I'm too skittish about that sort of thing. Particularly on a highway.

I do think the hype over-stepped the reality. The technology is still being worked on, and there was this idea that everything would be self-driving in 5-10 years. Which was completely unrealistic, and companies threw away a lot of money in all that hype.

I can see things like Waymo gaining more common use generationally. It just feels like one of those things that older people are extremely skeptical about, but those who grow up around the technology will become much less hesitant to use it.

And as far as, "We will replace truck drivers!" Yeah, maybe in 20 or 30 years. That shit is eight million lawsuits about to happen.

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