I've been getting ads for an autonomous ride sharing app in my area, so I'm going to see what life is like if that's my only form of transportation.
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Updates since filming:
Waymo has expanded their service area in the Phoenix area, so the two areas are now merged into one much larger area!
If you're interested in learning more about Waymo's tech you can check out their website here: waymo.com/waymo-driver/
It’s such a shame that with such high production value you only have a few thousand subs. On the bright side,all your videos are timeless.
Always appreciate your support! I really enjoy making them, and I’m glad people find some of them interesting 😊
For real
I liked the car’s solution to that left turn - where it drove itself parallel to the other turning vehicles. It was “thinking” in very human-like fashion - analyzing the situation and formulating solutions, even ones that aren’t totally legal. And it obviously made it work! I have been opposed to this tech, but I’ve changed my mind. I’m not about to pay for a self-driving system in my own car, but I’m really liking this robotaxi idea …
Second turn lane creation is normal in Peru. 😀
Good video; very helpful to know the costs associated. I wish you had gone into more detail about the process of ordering the vehicle via the app and how long you had wait once ordered. I will be traveling to AZ next week and am super excited to try this out! Side note, I live in Chicago and the left turn example you showed was very funny; That's how people drive here in Chicago 'normally' so I'm sure Waymo is 'Wayaway' from ever offering this service in ChiTown!
Thanks! Yeah tried balancing making the video concise while informative but I know what you mean. The app is super easy to use though which is the main reason I didn’t cover too much of the ordering process, and (while this might change over time) the wait was usually around 5-10 minutes for the pickup, but generally on the shorter side. There are also “nests” where Waymos hang out when not in service so if you happen to be near one of those then the pickup can sometimes be 1 or 2 minutes. Glad you’ll get to try it though! Haha yeah drivers around here tend to be pretty non-aggressive so I guess it’s good testing ground, but I’d love to see how it responds in lots of scenarios
did you try this out?
wow, your videos derserve WAY more attention. If you keep up this high quality of production, i can picture you with 300k subs easily. Very cool video an keep creating!
Thank you so much, that really means a lot 😊
Thoucht for a second you're one of those dudes with 250.000 subs as your video looks rly professional. I reached to you because I actually wanted to see how they re performing in real-life from the perspective of a average human instead of those PR presentations. And you were pretty much on top as the results came up .
Thank you so much! Yeah I try to put a lot of effort into my videos and I'm glad people are finding them and enjoying them :D
1:50 "You can't even tell that I'm in a driverless car." That sounds great to me. 👍
the ending is gold
Love ur vids! I’ve been subbed since you were at around 800 subs and you make super entertaining content keep it up!
Thank you so much, that really means a lot!! That’s awesome that you’ve been subbed for so long, that must have been right around when I published my stop motion video
@@sam-beige It was! I saw it on my for you page and thought your content was very professional looking and I was surprised at how little subscribers you had so I decided to subscribe!
A five year old in 2075: "You guys won't believe this, but my grandpa has a car that he actually has to drive himself...yeah, no the car doesn't do the driving. Grandpa has to actually hold this big circle and guide the car himself. "
Thank you for posting this. ❤️
New viewer here… Thanks for making this video! I hope the engineers at Waymo watch and learn from this. Also, great point in having the app memorize your preferences for the next ride. I have no problem using Waymo if I’m ever in a service area.
glad you found the video and enjoyed it! Yeah we’ll see if they make any changes, and I’ll have to post an update if they do! I hope you get to try it out soon 👍
Great video, once a month i check is there any updates on self driving cars, and this is best one about waymo so far. Greetings from Ukraine 🙂
This video is a pretty good demonstration of why these things will never replace actual drviers. They're slower than real drivers, handle unpredictable driving situations poorly (often by breaking the law or stopping in places they really shouldn't), and can only operate within specifically mapped areas. If adopted on a larger scale, they would probably not be nearly this clean and would become actively hazardous if road work is done that changes the map situation (something you will quickly realize is more common than you might think if you hop in a car with an old GPS and then try to use it). Moreover, if these vehicles were mass adopted, they would quickly intensify traffic gridlock in major urban areas which also makes them even more hazardous to ride in. And, when these vehicles are in accidents (especially when they do not have passengers inside), there isn't anyone to help in an emergency and they also often handle accidents poorly (which ends up causing even more damage). The chances of these things becoming street legal basically anywhere in the country that has a city government with half a brain is just about zero.
Horse, buggy, oatbag, shovel.
Taking a driverless's car to a receptionistless hotel in Call is my future dream.
this is insane ! thanks for video, keep it up!
Although these jaguar models don't sell well, they should produce more I Pace's for Waymo
Interesting fact: In 1885, Nikola Tesla came up with the idea for self driving cars while watching reruns of the Jetsons on his prototype television.
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I know he’s new on KZhead but his videos are so good they are like he’s been doing this for years
I think the cars don't go to freeways because they are not good enough to drive safely in them yet. Companies are testing in freeways, but driving in freeways vs. urban roads is very different. Anyway, thank you for the video! Very fun.
Thank you very much for the detailed video, I am in Tempe, so I will definitely try it!
Oh that’s awesome! Yeah they just extended the area of operation too, so it makes it even easier to get to more places. Hope you enjoy it!
Great video! Thanks for making this!
Thank you so much!! Had a lot of fun making it
here in California, San Fransico Waymo is popular, and you'd see at least 6 Waymo cars a block. And that's only a very little piece of San Fransico.
Thank you for the video it's amazing !
I'll try this when we are locked down again by the end of this year.
5:40 If ten years from now the worst part of this is a ten minute walk in some locations...I will count that as a win.
As someone else pointed out this should not be the be all end all solution to transit and walkable cities. Buses, trains, and even bike lanes have far more higher capacity.
I wonder if someone sliced the tire, could the car autonomously change the tire? Or can it autonomously call road side assistance? Will the car autonomously go around a protester blocking the road?
If your Uber diverse has a flat tire he also won't show up. And yes there is a team of maintenance people somwhere which are notified If something unusual happens.
@@Held_der_Feuer I wonder what a gallon of paint slung across the sensors would do. I also wonder of someone deliberately used a paintball marker to obstruct the sensors on the expressway, or a main thoroughfare with a 45 mile per hour speed limit what would happen.
It will work better and faster when everything is automated. We need to lean in.
So why is Waymo stuck in those limited areas? It seems like a prototype that isn’t going anywhere.
I've watched all the JJRicks Waymo videos, and I'm surprised (and disappointed) at the awkward left turn. Usually, when Waymo is going to make a left turn it gets into the left lane well ahead of time. Since it has the map programmed, it should have been able to use an alternative route when it found itself in the wrong lane. I know it doesn't yet use freeways.
How does bro not have 10k subs
This was a really cool video
thanks, glad you liked it!!
Imagine if cruise ships and airplanes were self captaining and piloting . That would be way too scary.
Imagine if a nuclear war happened that would be way too scary
Great video, thanks.
Autonomous cars are the future. One day, they will be as common as mobile phones. They will be safe and reliable. They will take away the stress of driving. There will be fewer accidents, if any. Our roads will be less dangerous.
Looks like it may need to be all cars in the system so that they work together. Perhaps the way to fix that turning problem you had, will require the car to quickly notify the office of a problem so that a person can remotely fix it. The problem could have been fixed by allowing the car to just pass the intersection, and turn around later, or use another route.
Yeah I was really hoping it would just go through the intersection and turn around later but it was pretty stubborn. I saw in a Waymo community thread that it might be a known issue, but hopefully they’ve fixed it by now. I’ll have to keep testing it to find out 😂
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They can remove the driver seat, and remove the direction wheel.
It s like the beginning of GPS, you have arrived in the forest😂😂😂
Cool would love to go in one , I’m in the uk so it’s going to be a long wait😢
I think the UK has something similar currently testing in London by a company called Wayve. But yeah hopefully you get to try one soon!
So if Accident happened, you can sue Waymo?
Very underrated
Waymo will not get moving violation 😂
Awesome new video but the first minute and title card feels like Ryan trahan but after both of that you’re video really felt like you’re own video instead of you trying to be someone else keep up the good work 👍
Thanks!! Yeah appreciate the feedback! He’s a huge inspiration for me, but definitely continuing to find my own voice 👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣 bad ass waymo
great video !
Waymo to me seems like it has a software problem, like it's not really thinking but just following premap and hard code. Tesla on the other hand seems like it struck gold with their AI learning and car looks like it's actually thinking, you can sometimes see split second decisions it makes to follow the rules but also with them follow the flow of traffic that isn't always perfect and predictable. For now Tesla has some problems that Waymo managed to fix with tons of sensors but with how much it has improved in the V12 I honestly believe it's a matter of time before it's better than a human at driving with just the current camera only setup.
They just expanded the area so that it is now much bigger and continious.
Yeah I saw that! I haven’t tried traveling across the whole map but the area is huge which is cool.
Good luck with your new fun 😂 good for fun. Waymo These are just a short Sometimes electronic parts fail😂😂😂😂😂 This rightful other vehicle won't give way😂😂😅😊
Video idea: Sculpting, your pretty good with pencils
Totally! Do you recommend any specific type of sculpting? I don’t know if I’d be any good at it but I love trying new things
@@sam-beige wood? Or even clay, thanks for replying!
Yeah great ideas! I’ve always thought woodworking would be really fun
should have expanded on the guy that called the police. How did you know? Did the police show up?
You should critique a driver care for fun.
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It is the future.
For first world countries of course
@@bernardoramos7842 Of course
Nice job on this video, Sam. I'm very interested in autonomous cars and trucks, and keep up on the many development efforts of companies trying to be the first to crack the driverless ride hailing market. Frankly, I don't think Waymo will be among the winners. Waymo's strategy and technology is not economically viable, in my opinion. The company is losing billions of dollars each year with no end in sight. How long will Alphabet's patience last? The only way Waymo can become profitable is to massively scale up their network. There are good reasons to believe that scaling the system will be extraordinarily difficult due to the high cost of their robotaxi hardware, the high cost of creating and maintaining the necessary lidar high definition maps, and their inability to achieve the reliability needed for general purpose autonomous passenger vehicle service. That level of reliability cannot not be achieved without extensive application of the latest AI deep machine learning technologies, a means to collect massive amount of training data, and Waymo management's willingness to acknowledge that their system is at a local maximum and will have to be redesigned.
Yay for exacerbating the homeless and poverty situation, it’s not like trucking is the most common job in nearly half the states. Screw ‘em right?!
Where do you get coupon codes?
I’m not aware of any coupon codes at the moment, the promo I got just automatically happened in my account shortly after signing up
It's the bleak ending statement for me. 😢
It could get expensive.
I used it several times while in Phoenix and it was a fantastic experience. It even took me back to the airport. I wish that it was everywhere.
Yeah I’ve continued to use it when I go to the airport or for little things here and there and whenever I go to another city I’m so sad that I can’t use it!
In Estonia, the robot cars don’t have all that crap hanging off of them. They wiz by you completely safely. 🙃
When the first guy bought the first car ever manufactured there was a whooooooo whoaaaaaaa about bus drivers and meter drivers losing jobs. However till this day, bus drivers and private car owners live in harmony ☺️ so for you to claim, the introduction of these cars will cause job loses is far fetched 😏
Who cleans the car after every trip? I bet a human has to clean it? How does it know if nobody vomited in it before it picks up the next passenger?
How does driverless cars avoid human trash and fieces??? Seems important in California
Fieces ??
I have some solid advice for you... It is only 2 steps. Step1: Buy a helmet Step2: Put on the f'n helmet Wowsers man no body paying attention? Good thing you put on the friggin helmet.
what editing software do you use?
I use Final Cut Pro
My humble opinion: I trust the TECH will get there, and they'll be a great replacement for Uber and Lyft and taxis. BUT, the issue is it's still just a car - what would really benefit cities is public transit. Unfortunately, this will be used as an excuse by the car industry to lobby the government against new public transit, because GM and co will be the ones selling these self-driving cars, factory-modded or otherwise. I think this will be a step backwards and antithetical to having more walkable cities.
I think Uber was founded with self driving cars as goal or at least Set it quickly afterwards.
This is really cool future technology we need this everywhere
This is kind of a copy of the Veritasium KZhead
these cars arent only in pheniox ik i spelled it wrong asf. im a dumbass
No rude balkan drivers
As an Uber driver, I think it's great. It will take all the rides I will never take and never actually mind having its time wasted. You can probably get away with having sex in the back, leaving all kinds of trash behind, smoking/vaping, and you're maybe even unlikely to get charged for the more egregious instances where technically you've put the car completely out of commission after a night out, but who will know because no one appears to be cleanliness monitoring. Really not your problem. Not to mention, it doesn't have the concern of out of pocket maintenance, personal liability insurance, commercial insurance costs taken out of the fare (clearly minimal here from your displays), or gasoline. The company rightfully takes care of all this like it should. It will never mind being yelled at and will not hesitate to drive how it likes regardless of safety. That I particularly dug. What's more, I only get the profitable rides because the marked zones are so small, which is terrific. Maybe we can get it to go to concert venues and not leave you if you take too long to meet it considering it probably has other requests. That being said, I'm in Los Angeles and there's no way this will be available any time soon. The important thing here though is you never needed to tip. Great video! 👍
One month later - Waymo is in LA !!
Keep feeding the beast. Your grandchildren will thank you for contributing to a society where you’re not allowed to drive anymore. Good job
Guardian robotics To fix the self driving car industry and electric car industry from failure and catalyses them into fail proof industrie guardian propose that the car industry give back the controls to the hands of consumers by making ecu and hbridgs that can eject with one unclip latch and spring loaded push to eject that will cut controls off the wheel motors and give back the power to self drivers .
In my opinion, anything that takes jobs away from real people is a bad thing.
all to increase the profit margin and get rid of those pesci humans.... the only thing they can't change is the human customer...
Intro: "This a Diverless Car." Protester: " This is a traffic cone that stops a Driverless car." China: "Mo Drivahless Kah. Mo money fo us."🤣😂🤣
No thank you. Seen these vehicles in Phoenix. Not interested.
These cars would be so much safer for women than services that have men drivers. It's not a knock on all men driving for Lyft and Uber. A lot of women have been raped and murdered by drivers of these two companies.
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Put a Cone on it!
I guess China is more advance they already driveles buses or minivans
Of course they are
I will never ride this crap
I admire the programming needed to get a car to actually do this. It’s not like simply driving down the highway, keeping the speed under control and staying in its lane …
Hi Sam 👋🏽 just a heads up I’ve sent you a DM in your IG
Or how about it just being for people that can't drive how about that why does it have to be for normal people Why does everybody have to use something that is met for the blind or for the handicap that cannot drive why does it have to be for people that can see If you're just limited to people that are handicapped that can't drive guess what that's less cars on the road that is have driverless vehicles on the road then guess what everybody gets around and I don't have to use somebody else to drive me somewhere I don't have to wait to get somewhere that I need to go No everybody has to jump on the bandwagon because it's cool
Good to know I'm a robot, because I'd do something like trying to merge into the turning lane like that if I drove an automobile.
I'd also create a second turning lane.
We live in the future.
great video!