Waymo in Dallas

	Waymo in Dallas(waymo.com)
	321 points by xnx 70 days ago \| 700 comments
	tl;dr: Waymo has opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the general public in Dallas, following a waitlist period that served nearly 150,000 riders since February. The company is also beginning autonomous testing on Dallas freeways and at Love Field Airport terminals, with plans to add those routes for public riders soon.
	HN Discussion: ↑Waymos could serve as an effective affordable housing policy by reducing car dependency costs ↑Waymos have become normalized and are safer, more predictable than human drivers ~Dallas's sprawling geography means Waymo needs rapid service area expansion to be truly useful ↓Waymo extracts money from local economies that would otherwise circulate through human drivers ↑Waymo's lidar approach validated over Tesla's vision-only strategy for autonomous driving