No doubt you’ve seen a Tesla before … ALL of them come with the ability to self-drive. Well, the Waymo fully-automated taxi company believes you’d like this better … Take a peek at the picture below and is it just me, or are you thinking “Ghostbusters?” The Waymo car can’t leave any of it’s pre-programmed areas without those areas being extensively mapped as it’s not allowed to “think on its own.” On the other hand, there are videos of people driving a Tesla up onto a sidewalk and the car figuring out it doesn’t belong there and looking to get back on the street all the while avoiding pedestrians, and doing it successfully. This is while Waymo cars in Cali drive into a cul-de-sac, immediately freakout with passengers on board, and create a logjam of cars blocking the residents from leaving their homes and forcing the Waymo passengers to hitch up their walking boots and find another method of transportation. Almost every day! But the CEO of Waymo says Tesla can never catch up with Waymo as a taxi service, as they have more total rider miles, He didn’t mention how many of those miles were their cars constantly driving in circles in cul-de-sacs. Here’s just a single article to read for fun … assuming you don’t live anywhere near where Waymo operates. Just Google the phrase “Waymo cars blocking” and you’ll be overwhelmed with the results. Also Waymo has to buy cars for its service (why o’ why, would they choose a Jaguar? … as though their software and sensors weren’t bad enough), while Tesla is reportedly producing a new driverless Cybertaxi in less than every 10 seconds or so from the Texas factory, in preparation for its initial takeover of the taxi industry in several cities coming in just a few weeks. The Waymo CEO sounds remarkably like the captain of the Titanic exclaiming it’s unsinkable as it sinks beneath the waves …
