Waymo

In the wake of the “fully driverless” and “safety driver” barren car avoiding police and driving without its lights on at night, not a single reporter asks the brutally obvious question in the title of this article. Why is that? Cognitive dissonance caused by Maslow’s Triangle and the associated pressures…

Dan O’Dowd, the founder of Green Hills Software has been going after Tesla saying its “Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” are unsafe and do not come anywhere near the capabilities those names imply. He has taken out ads in newspapers, made heavy use of Twitter, often by referring to YouTube…

In earlier articles I discussed Waymo suing to avoid providing proof of their actual “fully driverless” no safety driver, SAE L4, capabilities, what data is needed to provide that and the legal lengths Waymo went through to do so. As well as the entire industry tacitly agreeing with Waymo and…

For reference, please watch the series called Dropout or read John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood”. Some time back I wrote an article on the similarities between Theranos and the driverless vehicles industry. (That article with the similarities list is below.) …

December 5, 2018, it was a meaningful day in the autonomous driving industry. Waymo started Waymo One, a commercial ride-sharing service with its first autonomous vehicles in Arizona, USA. It got a lot of attention, but it wasn’t a perfect service. The first people to access the service were those…

It has been more than 10 years since Autonomous Vehicles(AV) were introduced to the world in earnest. And on one occasion, the rosy outlook was thwarted. We have yet to see AV on the road. Could this be due to a technical problem? I don’t think so. …

Reference article -Waymo to keep robotaxi safety details secret, court rules — https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/22/waymo-to-keep-robotaxi-safety-details-secret-court-rules/ Well, here we go. A court, who likely has no idea what it just did, gave Waymo and every other AV company the ability to hide safety data and any real ability to know if their systems…

Isn’t it interesting that within a couple of months these three companies miraculously stated their systems are driverless or L4 in micro-operational design domains? And not only do none of them provide ANY meaningful proof of doing so or the systems are remotely safe, Waymo is suing the California DMV…