Share.

4 Comments

  1. From the article

    >Herrera said that, for him, choosing Waymo over other options was obvious. It’s cleaner, private, and, based on his experience, safe, he said. He recalled a time when his Uber driver got into a crash after tailing too close to the car in front of them.

    >”I always get worried,” he said of human rideshare drivers back home — or in Toronto, where he often visits for business trips, and the roads can get icy. “I always get worried how their record is driving in those kinds of conditions.”

    >Waymo’s robotaxi presents one of the 21st century’s more visible cases of automation directly posing as a service worker, rather than hiding away in [a factory’s assembly line](https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-f-150-lightning-factory-tour-photos-electric-pickup-2022-12). Today, it’s giving you a ride to work; tomorrow, it could be making and serving your lunch. Some experts estimate that [humanoid robots](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-says-two-optimus-humanoid-robots-working-in-factory-autonomously-2024-6) are up next in the coming decade — whether customers like it or not.

    >As Waymo’s tagline reads: “The future is now.”

  2. Fun_Leadership_8486 on

    Where the cost be the same with a food be the same or better who knows robots or robots are supposed to be everywhere but is anything getting better who knows