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Hello London Your Waymo ride is arriving (waymo.com)
3 points by dukeyukey 13 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




Waymo of The Alphabet Group

The Waymo-fitted self-driving I-Paces are already serving thousands of fully autonomous rides every week in the US.

Only Thousands of waymo's a in a country of 342,000,000 people. very very low adoption.

Jaguar are no longer a British company, They are owned by the Indian firm Tata Motors.

its only a trial in London and Oxford.

sales pitch:

Waymo can help achieve London’s transport priorities, including ambitious targets for reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on the city’s roads.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2024/may/ne...

TfL has published the 2023 road casualty data to its online dashboard, showing the number of people killed on London's roads in 2023 fell by six per cent from 102 to 95, the second lowest level on record.

I dont think we will adopt this shit.

there will be more deaths

Our roads are not wide enough for an autonomous Chelsea tractor hurtling along the street with no controls


Are they aware how narrow London streets are



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